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Before the pre-Civil War era, it cannot be said that the college grew by leaps and bounds. It is doubtful that there was much of a library at all when Nathaniel Eaton taught his classes in the old Peyntree estate in "Newtowne," for John Harvard's 400 volumes did not receive a permanent location until the first College building was nearing completion...
Strong recommendations that the new undergraduate library have a Mt. Auburn Street location grew out of a conference Saturday evening between Murther E. Saise, chief of the West Cambridge City Planning Department, and a select group of students at McBride Hall...
Labor leaders, who have been loudly charging many a company with double bookkeeping to hide profits, were jolted last week. Chicago's Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that unionists may be sued for libel for such statements. The decision grew out of a squabble between Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Co. and a C.I.O. Steelworkers' local. Back in 1943, Pullman had stated in a newspaper ad that its profits, after all expenses, were only 1.81 of a cent on the dollar...
...wrath was the Army Investigating Board's Pearl Harbor report (TIME, Sept. 10). The report, branding his note to the Japs on Nov. 26, 1941 as an "ultimatum," had gone on to say: "It was the document that touched the button that started the war, as Ambassador Grew so aptly expressed...
After that, the corroboration of Joseph C. Grew, the pre-Pearl Harbor Ambassador to Tokyo, was an anticlimax: "[The Hull note] was in no respect an ultimatum.... I never said the Hull reply touched the button. I never understood how the board got that impression...