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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many months the Soviet Union had disregarded a U.S. request to negotiate a settlement of the $1 i billion in Lend-Lease which the U.S. had given during the war. More than half that sum had been for military supplies. Last week Soviet Ambassador Nikolai Novikov finally consented to discuss it. State Department officials sat down with him to tabulate the long overdue bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Education of the Misters | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

This is election week in the Dominican Republic, but El Jefe did little of the talking. There was no need to discuss the election; it was already rigged, with all the ruthless efficiency of the most thorough dictatorship in the Hemisphere. El Jefe cast a glance at the obelisk and its inscription: "I have put the ambitions of my youth and the brilliance of my career at the service of my country." Beyond such pap, inscribed far & wide on monuments through the Republic, he had no reason to worry about high-sounding ideologies. The dictator and President of the Dominican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Beautiful Murder | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

...term to one a month. Most corrections are on the basis of ideas related to the course with little or no attention paid to writing ability. This is in sharp contrast to the Committee's recommendation that the English instructors, after being absorbed by the general education program, should discuss weekly themes in conference with each individual student. Though this ultimate goal will require time, the very fact that it is a difficult changeover necessitates early experimentation to locate the wrinkles so they may be ironed out before General Education grows out of its present embryonic stage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Toward Undying Prose | 5/3/1947 | See Source »

...open meeting of Freshmen scheduled for last Friday has been moved up to tomorrow night at 7 o'clock in the Union common room, Edric A. Weld, Jr. '46 of the Council said last night. All Freshmen voters are invited to hear the candidates discuss their platforms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Sets Wednesday as Balloting Day | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

I.B.S., which covers campus radio stations from the University of Alabama and Swarthmore in the East to the College of the Pacific and Brigham Young, has planned a series of three such regional meetings this spring to talk over advertising and production problems of its members and discuss plans for an exchange of programs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHCN Plays Host to Collegiate Broadcast Groups This Weekend | 4/24/1947 | See Source »

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