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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much that U. S. spending since 1933 had been misguided ("natural forces of recovery were partly strengthened and partly hampered by the action of the Government") as that current Depression in the U. S., as a failure of purely national planning, serves to emphasize the need of greater international economic coordination. Excerpt...
...spill out my indignation concerning these misconceptions of the Crimson, but to inform those men who will be sophomores next year and who have the desire but not the will to concentrate in the Classics, that the reward of the effort and the facilities for instruction will be much greater than they may have been led to think. J. F. Hayward...
...fresh observations on the 22-month-old war. Most striking thing about the war to Sheean, who reached Spain only two months ago, is its incongruous combination of ultra-modern and primitive methods. The ultramodern: "Newfangled bombs, thermite, delayed-action fuses and the like, which are capable of greater destruction than any bombs hitherto used in war." The primitive: "There are no proper trenches anywhere [with the exception of those outside Madrid]. The ditches and ravines in these dusty clay hills take the place of trenches and are sometimes supplemented by small dugouts along their sides. There are no ordnance...
...think there ought to be a certain amount of culture in the land and that some of it probably ought to come from one Greater New York station. . . . Doesn't this kind of programming cost us jack we'll never get? You should hear what our treasurer says! If he got real nasty you know what we'd do? We'd blow a tickler in his face, that's what...
...performed at last week's concert are likely to become ambition-mad prodigies or struggling virtuosos. They are more likely to become mothers and fathers, sober citizens whose lives have been made more interesting through the study of music. For Manhattan's Music School Settlement, like Greater New York's 13 other community and settlement music schools (and over 50 other such schools scattered through U. S. cities), has always stressed the value of music as an avocation rather than a profession...