Word: handbooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Handbook Profit...
...nature, the guides "went to school" for several weeks early in the summer to learn as much as possible about Harvard, past and present. Most of them knew very little. However, with the aid of Samuel Eliot Morison's books on the history of Harvard and the new Harvard Handbook they filled in the gaps...
...cash advance, a salary as commander in the Japanese Navy. An unidentified Japanese opened negotiations with him, required evidence of his qualifications for the job. From the Navy Department Farnsworth obtained a batch of photographs showing U. S. battleships. Before turning his own copy of the supposedly secret Navy handbook over to the Japanese, Farnsworth said, he had checked it with a more recent edition belonging to a Navy Department friend. He insisted he had never received a cent for any of this material, nor had he obtained the employment he sought. Protested this onetime Naval officer: "Whatever I gave...
...articles," pored over books in the Naval Library. When a high-ranking officer's wife reported that he had urged her to show him certain Naval documents, G-Men joined Naval Intelligence agents in shadowing him. In May 1935, it was charged, he borrowed a U. S. Navy handbook entitled The Service of Information and Security, had it photo-stated, sold the copy to a member of the Japanese Embassy in Washington. This book, first published in 1916 and since revised, was, the Navy Department insisted, exclusively for responsible officers. Divulgence of its contents, officials implied, might necessitate...
...second publication will be a "Harvard University Handbook" containing 225 pages of "detailed description of the University grounds, buildings, libraries, and the contents of all the museums with many illustrations, and notes, on the history, development, and activities of all the Harvard departments...