Word: exodus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dorothy Thompson was a journalistic "natural." Daughter of a Methodist minister, she tried social service, advertising, found neither satisfactory, joined the bustling exodus of young U. S. literati who went abroad in the early 1920's. First reporting Miss Thompson did was freelance work for London papers. When she brought in the last interview given by famed Irish Hunger-Striker Terence McSweeney, Fleet Street began to take Miss Thompson seriously. Soon a roving correspondent for the Philadelphia Public Ledger, she achieved another resounding scoop by interviewing ex-Emperor Karl of Austria at the climax of his second attempt...
...Hopkins for University of California, where he had been promised more money for his work. Then versatile Professor Chinard announced that, at this academic year's end, he too would be off to California. There were persistent rumors that other facultymen, big and little, were planning a similar exodus...
...face of the masters' determination to give the cross-section plan a long trial period, University Hall must make the plan a reality. Under present conditions a general exodus of certain groups occurs at the end of sophomore year and deprives the houses of their truly representative character. The simplest way to keep these men in the houses would be ultimately to discard cross-sections altogether. But the present generation in college may still enjoy the benefits of genuine cross-sections if the houses can be made attractive enough to draw in the men that now prefer to live outside...
...failed in its purpose. When the House Plan was inaugurated in 1930, it was widely heralded that the autocratic rule of the clubs had come to an end, since each house fulfilled the various functions of a club on a large scale. At the present time, however, an annual exodus to the clubs drains the Houses of many of their most popular and versatile...
Jews. As president last week of the League Council, ruddy-cheeked Australian Stanley Melbourne Bruce was empowered to choose a new League High Commissioner for German Refugees, who will have at his disposal $16,000. The exodus of Jews from Germany was deplored by Geneva representatives of several states. "My country must serve notice," declared Rumanian Foreign Minister Nicholas Titulescu sharply, "that it is unable to receive one single stranger more within its territory...