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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assume that the Russian experiment must fail. . . . Nevertheless, the most superficial type of analysis . . . will show that the Soviet government has a good chance to maintain itself . . . and that we cannot with reasonable safety assume that they will fail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Business Adrift | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

...Tiger is a-lashing of his fail...

Author: By D. R., | Title: THE CRIME | 4/1/1931 | See Source »

...ghost with the bearing of Metternich walks in Germany again. An emergency decree empowers local authorities to stop gatherings which they regard likely to disturb public order, to suppress papers which attack religious organizations, slander public figures, or incite to violence, and to dissolve any societies which fail to keep the peace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RIGHTS OF MAN | 3/31/1931 | See Source »

Finding himself out of a job at the end of the war Holt, by a series of events which are mainly left to the imagination, becomes a notorious gangster. The combined efforts of Miss Cummings and Mr. Moore fail to save the racketeer and he is last seen in a storm of sentimentality being accompanied to the electric chair by his ineffectual benefactors...

Author: By B. Oc., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 3/27/1931 | See Source »

Yale men and all colleges may feel a certain satisfaction in the figures Princeton has published. But they must not attach too much importance to them by failing to balance the numbers of huge incomes against the meager which make an $18,000 average. Nor must they fail to consider the conditions within the homes and the standards of living which develop under our systems of education. Unquestionably Princeton has done as much for her sons in these respects. perhaps more. Nevertheless a consideration for the vagaries such an investigation entails will serve to illuminate its limitations. --Yale Daily News...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Success" | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

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