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...University sent Dean Paul H. Buck, Dean Chester A. Hanford, Dean George H. Chase, and Dean Cecil E. Fraser, as well as half a dozen members of the Board of Overseers...
...test was designed by Educator Hugh Russell Fraser and two-time Pulitzer Prizeman Allan Nevins, Columbia University's Professor of history. Object: "to determine the amount of U.S. history that the high-school graduate retains from his secondary course." The question of what he retains from other courses, of what he would retain from a compulsory college course, went necessarily unanswered...
...policy of global supremacy as a 1943 version of "manifest destiny"; Lord Londonderry among others urged strong counter-measures. Secretary Knox's plea for American naval bases all over the world was equally unfortunate. Alarm in the New Zealand House of Representatives over such bases forced Prime Minister Fraser to declare formally that he believed President Roosevelt "incapable of a mean action." And German propagandists utilized Knox's statement to such good effect that Summer Welles was required to reassure anxious Latin Americans that the United States did not purpose to infringe their territory or sovereignty. The proponents...
Arrivistes. In Albany, N. Y., the Board of Regents studied the summer-school credits collected at three universities by single-minded Alexander V. Fraser, decided he was finally entitled to the high-school diploma he had failed to win 30 years ago. In Denver, Otis Edwin Gardner was charged with assault with a deadly weapon: he had tried to get a promotion by 1) threatening the boss with a revolver, 2) bringing a whetstone to the office, spending a morning significantly honing his knife...
...that Commandos unwisely attempts to combine two pictures in one. Picture No. 2-the raid-is overshadowed by Picture No. 1-the stirring story of the Norwegian fishing village where the raid eventually takes place. Acted with superb restraint by Paul Muni and an excellent cast including Elizabeth Fraser, Ray Collins and Lillian Gish (in her first picture since His Double Life in 1934), the story tells about the transformation of the villagers after the arrival of motorized Nazi soldiers, who strike the quiet village with the impact of a powder-plant explosion. The peaceful villagers, goaded by Nazi beatings...