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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democratic voters are 41% in favor of a conservative candidate in 1940, 59% in favor of a New Dealer, compared to 37% and 63%, respectively, before the Purge (Gallup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mood | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

After a year's struggle to strike down the armored opposition to the House Associate Member Plan, the majority of the student body who favor the plan have at last, if not beaten, at least unmasked their opponents. It is now apparent that there is no official opposition to the associate membership plan other than that springing from certain of the House Masters; high college officials, reversing an earlier stand, are now backing the plan. Thus it is the Masters alone who still must be convinced that the disadvantages of the plan do not outweigh its obvious advantages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COOPERATION FOR ASSOCIATION | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

Rodrigner first appeared at President Conant's outer office last Thursday, where he expounded his plan for dropping all athletics in favor of an intensive program of diaphragm study. He was shunted from the Conant office to Dr. Arlie V. Bock, and from there to Clarence B. Van Wyck, secretary of the department of physical education. Finally he was allowed to exhale before physical education instructor David C. Hyde. "Shoving the buck, that's what it was," raged the professor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXHALING EXPERT TRIES TO SELL HIS "SECRET OF LIFE" | 2/25/1939 | See Source »

...college of cardinals in Rome will probably not elect a Pope strongly in favor of the Rome-Berlin axis, George La Piana, John H. Morrison Professor of Church History, predicted yesterday. What influence the American cardinals will have, if any, no one knows, he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Church Professor Says Pro-Fascist Cardinal Unlikely to Be Next Pope | 2/24/1939 | See Source »

...close was the voting yesterday that Speaker Christian A. Herter '15 took an unusual step in having himself recorded in favor of reconsideration. The repeal bill prevailed on a voice vote, failed on a standing count, 83-77, before a roll call was ordered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OATH REPEAL BILL LOSES BY 3 VOTES | 2/21/1939 | See Source »

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