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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Room No. 2034 m Washington's Munitions Building is the office of Secretary of War Harry Hines Woodring. A few paces down the hall is the office of Assistant Secretary of War Louis Arthur Johnson. Their lairs might as well be in separate buildings. For Messrs. Woodring and Johnson never visit each other. Only when absolutely necessary do they speak to each other. When official business requires them to communicate, they do so in writing or through harried subordinates. Mr. Johnson despises Mr. Woodring. Mr. Woodring distrusts and despises Mr. Johnson, who for 27 months has gunned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Scandalous Spats | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...ties, stepped into the gutter to let upperclassmen pass, went to the President's Reception to dance with 250 debutantes. University of Pennsylvania's freshmen dined together for the-first time in a new commons, afterwards-paraded to Benjamin Franklin's statue in front of Weightman Hall, then to a rally on Franklin Field. At Harvard the big news was that Cambridge University's famed Semanticist Ivor Armstrong Richards (The Meaning of Meaning) would set sail from England this week to be a visiting lecturer. Not to be outdone, Yale announced that it had bagged University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Unique Burden | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Kirkland scored first near the end of the first quarter, when Jerry Hall intercepted a Bunny pass and carried the ball to the one yard line. Earl Foster plunged over for the point but the Deacons failed to convert...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Puritans Snatch 2-0 Win From Lowell; Kirkland Overcomes Bunny Team 12-0 | 10/7/1939 | See Source »

...crowd of over 250 people in Pierce Hall last night heard the dramatic story of the salvaging of the squalus from the man who directed it: Commander Charles B. Momsen of the U. S. Navy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SALVAGING OF SQUALUS DESCRIBED BY MOMSEN | 10/7/1939 | See Source »

...then delegates its work to the smaller Faculty Council. But on Tuesday the full Faculty (consisting of all ranks over and including Faculty Instructors) was discussing a question which must have seemed more pressing than any that has come up in President Conant's six-year tenancy of University Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FACULTY'S FIRST ROUND | 10/5/1939 | See Source »

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