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The election on November 2 is non-partisan in form, and every Bostonian, of whatever political faith, should remember that in voting for Nichols he may not be opening the door of Utopia, but he is at least writing "finis" to a disgraceful chapter in the history of Massachusetts. This...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEST APPPLE | 10/26/1937 | See Source »

Finis

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRUE HARVARD SPIRIT IN TYRICAS SETTING | 10/1/1936 | See Source »

At 10 a. m. on Jan. 1 the high-banked seats of a lecture amphitheatre at Washington University were jammed with a capacity crowd of 300-mostly scholars, a few newshawks, a handful of laymen. In the doorways and the hall outside a hundred more strained their ears. This was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cosmic Clearance | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

And so old Doc Carrel wants to set up a dictatorship of doctors over the entire human race and appoint himself chief Mussolini of the group. Well, well, what a grand and appropriate finis that would be to a civilization already doddering on the brink because of having been established...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 30, 1935 | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

But eventually the conflicting problems of his story proved too much for Peter's nerve-torn mind. With Jack, just released from prison, kidnapped and murdered, his wife making radical capital out of his martyrdom, with his racketeer brother Andy's "brain guy" dead and Andy left blustering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Third Generation | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

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