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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Association of Teachers of German, meeting just before M. L. A., had squelched a resolution of sympathy with "victims of fanaticism in Germany." In protest, the New York City chapter threatened to secede from A. A. T. G...
...past 20 years, buck-toothed Robert LeRoy Ripley announced another believe-it-or-not: he himself is now "more widely traveled than Marco Polo, Magellan, and any other human being that ever lived." In an article for the London News-Chronicle, "1939-What Does It Hold," H. G. Wells suggested a possible solution of the world's present ills: ". . . The immediate fate of hundreds of millions of people hangs upon the unchecked impulses of a mere handful of men. You could pack the whole lot of them into an ordinary aeroplane. It would be a tumultuous load...
...Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Guild strikers who have been picketing three closed daily newspaper plants since October 3 attended the annual holiday party given by Colonel E. G. Smith, publisher of the Times-Leader, obeyed the "No strike talk" order of the evening, went back to picketing the next...
...Conference was attended by the Harvard Committee, and by representatives of undergraduate organizations in 30 other colleges. Speakers included Franz Boas, leading American anthropologist who spoke on "The Nazi Race Myth," Dorothy Thompson, and James G. McDonald, former High Commissioner of the League of Nations. A concrete result of the conference was the erection of a permanent intercollegiate Committee which will stimulate interest in other colleges. Offices are maintained in New York City...
Linking the tutees informally to the regular Harvard instructors is the formation of conferences groups in History, Economics, and English composition, under the guidance of Daniel Aaron, Lloyd G. Reynolds, and Kenneth Kempton, of the Harvard staff. Undergraduate tutors and tutees working in these fields meet with the instructors once a month for general discussions...