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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extent to which I am securing these vital rights is modest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Last Statement | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...provide the most competent tutorial instruction. Under the old tenure plan, they might roughly have been classed as the assistant professors plus the associate professors. When the Committee of Eight proposed to abolish the rank of assistant professor, it was not proposing to reduce the middle group to that extent. Instead, it intended that this number be held constant, and that for every assistant professorship abolished, a new associate professorship should be created. The money to pay these new associates was, in effect, to come from savings arising out of a cut in the average salary of full and associate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAST CHANCE FOR JUSTICE | 10/14/1939 | See Source »

...finest albums of jazz program music yet to be issued appeared a short time ago in the discs of Irving Berlin by Paul Whiteman. Whiteman has utilized to the highest extent his various instrumental ensembles, extremely capable vocal quartet, the Modernnaires, and singer Joan Edwards. Space won't permit discussion of each record, but the two albums, presenting some of the really great tunes of jazz ("Blue Skies," "Remember," etc.) are highly recommended...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 10/13/1939 | See Source »

...battleship, who believes the German Air Force (which he inspected intimately last year) can knock out the British Navy, says: "A pure air war has not been fought, but I'll tell you one thing, air power is respected by all naval strategists in war games to this extent - that the side losing its aircraft carriers was first is deemed to have lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Where Is the Ark Royal? | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...tastes may vary: art is beginning to have political and social implications; it is becoming closely intertwined with the earth upon which we walk and the lives which we lead. Consequently, since art is in the process of adopting us, it is only fair that it adopt, to some extent, the ethical pattern within which we exist. Despite the fact that Epstein's interpretation of ADAM does not fit our own pattern of ethics, it still remains a solid contribution to the advancement of culture because of its thought-provoking nature. Art regains health and circulation after just such brisk...

Author: By Jack Wilner, | Title: Collections & Critiques | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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