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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anyone who likes powerful and brilliant choral singing there could be few greater pleasures than listening to the Helsinki University Chorus, which is now making a brief tour of the East in its first visit to America...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 1/6/1938 | See Source »

...purpose of the book, according to the foreword, is "to aid in bringing about a greater cohesiveness in the classes, to provide a medium whereby the student may breaden the scope of his friendship and acquaintance, and to serve as a dignified record of the School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Law School Yearbook Given Out at Brooks' House | 1/4/1938 | See Source »

...strong organization among the employees here would bring to Harvard. Employers all over the country are beginning to discover that unions, when once firmly established, constitute efficient outlets for petty grievances. Unions clear the air, help both employer and employee to accept one another's point of view with greater tolerance. With this in mind we join with many another student in voicing the hope that the University and the union may soon come to an amicable understanding based on the preferential shop. John L. Saltonstall, Jr. '38. Peter Seeger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

Certainly if there is a U. S. Man of 1937 he is John Llewellyn Lewis who made his C.I.O. a primary force in the affairs of the nation, fought two great automobile strikes, unionized the greater part of the U. S. steel industry for the first time in history and in a twelvemonth built a labor organization the equal of the old A. F. of L. in size and power, its superior in leadership. The measure of his achievement is that his two runners-up were his two visa-vis : 1) Chairman Myron Charles Taylor who without a blow being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Man & Wife of the Year | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

...have never had proved to my satisfaction." says Angna Enters, "that working in tragedy and 'high comedy' requires anything greater than performing on the variety stage. . . . At least, these ordinary vaudeville performers do not get across by special pleading that they are 'pure spirits.' " One thing Mime Enters found in performers like Bill ("Bojangles") Robinson. Jimmy Savo, Moran & Mack and the Fratellinis was timing raised to a high art. She raised it, in some instances, higher. Her use of castanets in a dance-pantomime called Boy Cardinal, composed in 1932, was something Bojangles or even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: High Vaudevillian | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

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