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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second place, the building will extend down three stories below the surface of the Yard, and will be capable of "indefinite expansion through underground additions." This will make it easily convertible into a bomb proof shelter, and it might even be used as a special subway station for Harvard men only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HERE'S ONE FOR THE BOOKS | 10/3/1940 | See Source »

...advocated extension of unlimited credit to China, holding it better to extend credit gratis than sacrifice "not only our munitions but also the lives of our young men." At the same time it stood for an embargo on raw materials against Japan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law Professors Favor Complete Aid to China | 10/1/1940 | See Source »

Finally, declared the President-elect, he would extend adequate guarantees to both Mexican and foreign investors. This just about completed the platform on which General Almazán campaigned. Within 24 hours General Emilio Madero (brother of onetime President Francisco Madero, who ousted Dictator Porfirio Díaz), president of the Almazanista PRUN, announced that if Avila Camacho carried out his promises, he himself would give support to the new President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Fizzled Fireworks | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

...Bicentennial delegates, all this added up to one conclusion: the sole hope of civilization was the maintenance of its free universities. On that, Pennsylvania had discouraging news. Three years ago it started a drive, to culminate at the Bicentennial, for $12,500,000, to extend its research, strengthen its teaching, build new buildings. Despite the efforts of Thomas Sovereign Gates, onetime Morgan partner who has served the university as president since 1930 without pay, of Philadelphia Banker Joseph Wayne Jr., drive chairman, of Thomas I. Parkinson, president of Equitable Life, and of John Price Jones, high-powered professional fund raiser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: 200 Years of Penn | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

...indicated last night to what extend the R.O.T.C. or other military organizations were prepared to cooperate with the Defense League...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: American Student Defense League To Organize Military Drill Here | 9/24/1940 | See Source »

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