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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although I arrived at Harvard multas par gentes et multa par acquora rectus, and although I shall have much to say in these articles about things with chronological claims to priority, Harvard was the focal point of my wanderings, the other end of the straight line from Cambridge from which my other excursions were divergences. Let us then start at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English Student Visiting at Tercentenary Finds Harvard's Seven Houses Similar to Those at Cambridge University | 1/29/1937 | See Source »

...henchmen talked openly of "forcing the resignation" of Jewish-Socialist French Premier Leon Blum, next "detaching" France from her Soviet alliance, and finally "restoring" Britain, Germany, France and Italy to comradeship under the big tent of II Duce's recently quiescent Four-Power-Pact (TIME, April 10, 1933 et seq.). They bragged as if there were of course enough Might handy to make possible so grandiose a reshuffle of the entire European situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Butter v. Might | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

Considering that Stalin claims to believe that Trotsky successfully fomented the assassination of the Dictator's "Dear Friend Sergei" Kirov (TIME, Dec. 10, 1934 et seq.), and then hatched a conspiracy which had the death of Stalin as its objective (TIME, Aug. 24 et seq.), it was curious last week that official Moscow and the Party and press in Russia were indifferent to the honors President Cardenas was paying to Mexico's guest. Tremendous was the hullabaloo raised meanwhile by the Mexican Communist Party which is avowedly Stalinist. Its General Secretary,† blatant Comrade Hernan Laborde, massed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Trotsky, Stalin & Cardenas | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

Sian, the interior city in which the "kidnapping" and series of conferences with Communist leaders occurred (TIME, Dec. 21 et seq.), was lavishly hospitable, through its satrap, General Yang Hu-cheng, to arriving Communist leaders of varying importance and to U. S. Counselor of Embassy Willys Ruggles Peck who flew up from Nanking and dined festively. On flying back to Nanking, highly diplomatic Counselor Peck said it was "partly correct" that some 21 U. S. citizens in Sian were being "held as hostages" by the Reds, but that General Yang had been nice about saying he would arrange for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Deteriorating Conditions | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

...Club in every town . . . in which [boys] may have their God-given right to play and work. . . ." Spiritually stirred by a planetarium performance in Chicago, he donated $150,000 toward the erection of a planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan (TIME, Jan. 15, 1934, et seq.). He gave his alma mater $100,000 in 1927 for its student housing program. His one great philanthropy, the Charles Hayden Foundation, had to wait for his death. Pronounced Charles Hayden in his will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: For Nobler Men | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

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