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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exhibits has been made by Harvard's Fogg Museum, and Langdon Warner, Curator of the Oriental Department, has been made Director of Fine Arts in the Fair's "Division of Pacific Cultures." Just back from a year's travel in the Orient, Mr. Warner has so organized the display of Pacific culture as to bring considerable comment--not only because of its grand scale, but also because of its ingenuity of arrangement and high artistic quality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections & Critiques | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Also it seems to me that the unholy glee the 3 sgts. display in taking human life is more in keeping with young Mussolini rather than with the accepted opinion of the British Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 27, 1939 | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

Today, W. M. Welch Manufacturing Co. is a $500,000 Chicago concern. Although diplomas have become so common that most of their owners scorn to display them, practically no graduate of the nation's 30,000 high schools and 1,000 colleges would dream of leaving school without one, and most elementary school graduates demand them, too. Mr. Welch's company, which supplies twice as many as any other firm, sells some 500,000 a year in high schools and colleges and 100,000 in elementary schools. Last week it started production of the 1939 models...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Diploma Business | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...Temporary National Economic (Monopoly) Committee, which fortnight ago was entertained by SEC Chairman William O. Douglas' smart display of the insurance industry's enormous power, last week heard Bill Douglas try to prove that insurance directors use their influence to swing business their own way. Evidence: 1) while a director of New York Life, Alfred E. Smith solicited fuel oil contracts for certain of its properties; 2) Mutual Life's deposit at Bankers Trust Co. jumped from $150,000 to $1,500,000 when Bankers Trust's President S. Sloan Colt became a director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Curtain | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...decision from his opponent, Robert Wolf, Penn's sophomore standout in the unlimited class. At 175, Dunc Longcope came through as was expected of him and took the Quakers' George Stiskney for a decision. Longcope is steadily developing into one of the best wrestlers on the team with his display of natural ability and speed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Matmen Down Penn in a 17-11 victory; Captains Ross and Allman Fight Feature Bout | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

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