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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...symposium in the Metropolitan Opera House will be the main attraction of today's events. President Conant will preside, and the speakers will be Harlow Shapley, Director of the Harvard Observatory; Francis T. Spaulding '16, Dean-elect of the School of Education; Wallace B. Donham '98, Dean of the Business School; and Bruce C. Hopper '24, associate professor of Government. Thomas W. Lamont '92, will introduce the speakers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alumni Gather for Jamboree in New York, Members of Faculty to Attend Meeting | 5/17/1940 | See Source »

Although the Alumni Association was founded in 1940, it was not until 1865 when the University was divorced from political control and the Alumni were given the right to elect the Board of Overseers that the Association became an active force, Roelker says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: START OF ALUMNI BODY DESCRIBED | 5/17/1940 | See Source »

Under the complicated terms of the new "rules relating to organization and procedure," the Faculty will annually elect one-fifth of its membership of approximately 330 men to serve as a permanent quorum with "a special obligation to attend all meetings, regular and special...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW RULING SETS UP 'INSURED QUORUM' FOR ALL FACULTY MEETINGS IN FUTURE | 5/15/1940 | See Source »

Plan E is essentially the form of government which has given Cincinnati the reputation of being the best managed city in the country. It provides, in brief, for a city council of nine, to be elected by proportional representation. The council would elect one of its members mayor. He would be the official head of the city. In addition it would appoint a city manager, who, as administrative chief of the city, would carry out the council's policies and be responsible to it. Thus responsibility for city affairs would be concentrated in the council, which, elected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Press | 5/10/1940 | See Source »

...July 14, Cuba will elect a new President, a Vice President, 36 Senators, 162 members of the House of Representatives, six provincial governors and more than 150 mayors. Cuba has a dozen political parties, roughly herded into one of two coalition groups: the Government coalition, whose candidate for President is Colonel Fulgencio Batista, and the opposition front, which nominated Dr. Ramon Grau San Martin, onetime (1933-34) President and head of the "Revolutionary Party." Last week Dr. Grau got mad and withdrew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Candidate Famine | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

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