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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...miniature world of the university, the destination of the competitive express is social prestige. In the larger world, the first station is making money. What an extraordinary resemblance there is between the two types of competition! Both tend to foster equality of opportunity. Both help to keep the society in which they exist from becoming stratified. In both the goal is an immediate and definite one, the dividends make their appearance early. The campus "big shot" and the "rugged individualist" of business have much in common...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "On The Make" | 10/25/1932 | See Source »

...grudge. As assistant to a dizzy astrologer ( Henry Gordon) she has written poison pen letters to all her snobbish schoolmates. She is preparing to follow up her disastrous circulars with more direct methods when a smart detective (Ricardo Cortez) catches up with her on the back platform of an express train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 24, 1932 | 10/24/1932 | See Source »

Members of the University will be given a chance to express their political convictions today when the quadrennial CRIMSON presidential poll takes place. Ballot boxes will be placed in each of the seven Houses, in the Baker Library, in Sever, Langdell, and Pierce Halls, and in the Union. A schedule of the times at which the voting will take place in the various polling places, appears below...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Presidential Poll Opens Today In University Buildings For All Students | 10/20/1932 | See Source »

...taxi driver took them to the Gare de Lyon. They caught the midnight express for Italy. Early the next day they were across the border, whizzing through mountains among which run great electric power lines. Ivar Kreuger passed through that countryside many times on his trips to Rome for secret transactions. Alfred Lowenstein played financial chess writh Italian power projects until he plunged from an airplane into the English Channel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Flight to Athens | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

...wrote a novel, four years since he retired to Marion. Va. to run two country newspapers. Sensitive as a weathervane to the intellectual current of the day, but dizzied beyond his normal bewilderment by conflicting winds of doctrine, he has been doing his unlevel best to understand and express what, if anything, the U. S. is driving at. Though he has always sympathized with the individual Americano aspiring to be an individual, he has been impressed by the intelligentsiae preoccupation with Communism. Beyond Desire, the muddled result of his latest feelings, is neither fish, flesh nor good red Communist herring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Beyond Control | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

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