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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...requires that U. S. munitions contracts, "except in rare cases," shall be let to the lowest bidders. The bidders include the U. S. arsenals, which naturally can underbid private concerns. Private munitions-making for the U. S. tends to be not only profitless but costly. Members of the Army Ordnance Associations- civilian industries organized under reserve officers and the Assistant Secretary of War-spend large sums keeping up-to-date their factory plans and personnel for munitions-making. It would be not only just but wise for the U. S. to give "educational" orders to such industries. During...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Munitions | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

...loose for the next two and a half weeks, free to read and think and discuss and even to loaf if they think they can get away with it. The faculty is trying the experiment of suspending all classes and most of the lectures between the holidays and midyears. Except for laboratory work and conferences the student's time is his own. The use he makes of it presumably will be shown up by the exams. The idea is that education is too much time-tabled, and that young men ought to have some chance to seek wisdom instead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 1/7/1928 | See Source »

...noticed a bent toward smoother rhythm and harmony "Since I wrote the rhapsody several pieces have been written in the American idiom, call it jazz, blues or what you will I believe that in a few years classics will appear that could not have been composed anywhere except in the United States...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: George Gershwin Forecasts Triumphs For American Composers--Marilyn Miller Sizes Up Paul Whiteman | 1/6/1928 | See Source »

...candidates for the degree of A.B. or S.B. in 1928, except out of course students who entered with the Class of 1929 and are graduating...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANNOUNCE PLANS FOR 1928 ALBUM | 1/5/1928 | See Source »

Questioned about the differences between New York and Boston audiences Mr. Halliday asserted that they were terrifle. "There is no New York public except during the first weeks. Afterwards people come from suburbs and every place else. We don't get as many laughs out of a Boston crowd, because they take the play very seriously, but on the other hand the applause is greater at the end. However, I won't allow curtain calls during the play. The vanity of an actor is essential but if he has proper pride he will not stand for interruptions. He labors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Master Magician of "The Spider" Laments Seriousness of Boston Audience--Fears Harvard Men Will Kid Him in Dark | 1/3/1928 | See Source »

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