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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Circle aims to stand or fall by a novel format of radio entertainment-a round-table type of informal-sounding chatter about anything under the limited radio sun, participated in by the elect of the entertaining world. The informality is achieved by the cast sitting down with the script writers few days before, sometimes tussling all night with the job. The Circle's, original members were Ronald Colman, a ten-year holdout against radio work; Cinemactress Carole Lombard; Leading Man Gary Grant; Baritone Lawrence Tib-bett; Groucho and Chico Marx; Robert Emmett Dolan and his orchestra. Early guests were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Costly Circle | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Paul Kerins '42, Sophomore Government concentrator who recently tossed a hat loaded with dynamite into the Brookline political ring and is campaigning for election to the School Committee, yesterday turned pamphleteer and distributed 5,000 mimeographed leaflets, urging the voters to "Elect Kerins for School Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kerins Issues 5,000 Leaflets In Brookline School Campaign | 2/14/1939 | See Source »

...steady enthusiasm for Being Catholic Out Loud." Some of the Guide's pointers for forming Catholic Action groups: > "The most suitable number for a group is usually about twelve. . . . They are to have a corporate life. They must pray together, study together, act together." > Each group should elect a Leader, a secretary, a treasurer. "There was a purse-keeper amongst the twelve [Apostles]. For the purse-keeper perhaps there had better be special prayers." > A group should arrange early to hear from a priest about the Doctrine of the Mystical Body-which holds that with Christ as the Head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Out Loud | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...annual meeting of The Harvard Crimson is to be held this afternoon at 4 o'clock, at which time the out-going officers of the 1939 Board will relinquish their posts to the officers-elect of the incoming 1940 Board. President, Cleveland Amory, Managing Editor Caleb Foote, Business Manager J. Francis Dammann, Jr., Editorial Chairman Ellsworth S. Grant, Executive Editor John T. McCutcheon, Jr. and Photographic Chairman Roger W. Loewl will read reports of the activities of their respective departments in the 1938-1939 period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1940 Officers Take Over From '39 At Annual Meeting of the Crimson | 2/1/1939 | See Source »

...said the Congress, the whole thing was a mistake. Chile's party was as unlike Germany's as a sickle is unlike a swastika. The world must remember that 15,000 Nacistas helped elect Chile's Popular Front President Pedro Aguirre Cerda last October. Henceforth the party name was to be Popular Socialist Vanguard. It would advocate: 1) nationalization of copper, nitrate, iron industries, electricity, railroads (all but the last largely U. S.-owned); 2) creation of a State-owned bank and merchant marine; 3) housing for Chile's underpaid workers. Having thus clarified a world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Mistaken Identity | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

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