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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sentiment in Congress which rammed through the Neutrality Act is on the side of the party which the Act, if enforced, would hurt most. Unless war between Czechoslovakia, Germany and other powers were formally declared, the President could again preserve the fiction and all U. S. hands would be free from the Neutrality Act's rigid restrictions...
...Lion" quickly obtained from the Chilean Congress a four-month grant of extraordinary powers to handle the extremists. All Cabinet members resigned to give the President a free hand, but were later persuaded to hold on to their jobs. By last week, President Alessandri's police investigators had dug up enough evidence to make the abortive coup d'état one of the best documented revolts in Latin-American history. Revealed was a list of 12,000 alleged financial contributors to the rising. Among them were Santiago's Ford dealer, Carlos Orrego, and a University student named...
Under the terms of the bequest of the late George H. Leatherbee one course in the School is designated as the Leatherbee Lecture Course and is open free of charge to properly qualified business and professional men. Because of the current interest in transportation problems, the course given by Professor Cunningham, a nationally known authority in the field, has been chosen...
...turned a deaf ear to the throaty gurgles of Guardian editors catching their first sight of hard cash in over a year and lapsed again into reverie, permitting a mental tear to soften his brain. Oh, to be a Freshman one more. To have four years of certain free summers ahead. To be free from having to think of something to be. Vag experienced slight nausea at his own nostalgia, and his thoughts swung to what courses he might sit in on this year. There was always Merriman's first lecture, a phenomenon in itself. There would be Holcombe...
...criticism voiced recently by a Harvard lecturer is true--that indifference means aloofness to social progress (a better phrase than conservatism), it is time to sit up and redefine the slogan. This lecturer, Mr. Rollo Brown, claims that "it is no more to be expected that Harvard will kick free of her restraints and lead off boldly in behalf of any economic democracy that would elevate large numbers of submerged individual men to opportunities of growth than that Duke University will launch a crusade against the use of tobacco." He points out that Harvard's closest relatives are its financial...