Word: europeans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Illustrating the gradual progress of bookbinding, the display contains many of the most valued items in the Treasure Room of Widener, including one book studded with gems, early manuscripts with wood-board covers, unique embroidered bindings, and examples of the leather work of some of the greatest early European book designers...
...course, many of the features of the European totalitarian state are being imported to Brazil. President Vargas will rule by decree until such time as a plebiscite on the new constitution can be held; the old representative organs are being abolished; and the army and navy are being used to insure President' Vargas' authority; but these are familiar accompaniments of a South American revolution. That which gives democratic countries cause for concern is the fact that intolerance and the destruction of free thought have gained a real foothold in the American continent, the stronghold of liberalism and freedom. This...
Charles W. Duhig '29, assistant in History, introduces the topic of the Far East, S. Shepard Jones, instructor in Government, that of European Affairs, and Lloyd G. Reynolds, instructor in Economics, that of American Neutrality...
Perhaps the most interesting teacher I have is Professor Langer from whom I am auditing modern European History. He has a penchant for making all the great events in history very human and loves to deflate the notables of the past century...
Winston Churchill's Great Contemporaries is a collection of 21 essays, product of eight years of scattered writings, on various figures of importance in recent European political history, by England's irrepressible bad boy of politics. He is soundest in his estimates of older statesmen and most informative in his reminiscences of personal contacts with World War generals. But as Author Churchill approaches the present his passionate conservatism leads him increasingly astray from accepted opinion. He defends as a "forlorn" patriot the opèra bouffe Boris Savinkov (prerevolutionary Russian spy who worked both for the Tsarist police...