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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York, as Princeton does, while Harvard in Massachusetts and Dartmouth in New Hampshire are both in the influence of Boston. This sounds far-fetched, but there is truth in it. Harvard and Dartmouth are distinctly New England universities. Yale is ceasing to be one, and Princeton, of course, never drew any considerable fraction of its students from north of New York. While Yale has probably regarded its contests with Harvard as the most important on its schedules, there has been no disposition there to belittle-or underestimate the historic rivalry with Princeton, and the cultural thrust of Yale has tended...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big Four | 2/11/1933 | See Source »

Word that typewriters, revolver shots and police sirens would concatenate in Carnegie Hall, last week drew a crowd unaccustomed to entering Manhattan's most formal music house. Theatre folk, songwriters and newspapermen flocked to hear tabloid Paul Whiteman (126 Ib. thinner than he used to be) play Tabloid. It had been written for him by his oldtime orchestrator, squat, baldish Ferde Grofé who now runs the Grofé Realty Co. in Teaneck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mrs. Carpenter's Dot | 2/6/1933 | See Source »

Meanwhile, Camel's new advertising campaign ("It's fun to be fooled . . . It's more fun to KNOW") drew fire from U. S. magicians whose tricks were exposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Troubled Smoke | 2/6/1933 | See Source »

Centrist Deputies vainly cried "Shame!" and "Scandal!" Speaker Kerrl drew cheers from Fascist and Nationalist Deputies by shouting: "Today is the 62nd anniversary of the proclamation of the German Empire at Versailles! ... By my order the Imperial flag now flies above this chamber. Glory to the old flag, and to the House of Hohenzollern, glory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Negro with Parasol | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

Last week came the cracker that drew roars of glee from all Paris. Of the 72 Deputies, nine wrote to the E. D. L. N. G. promising their undying support. The dumb Deputies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Dumb Deputies | 1/23/1933 | See Source »

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