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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third night of drifting without food or water, they sighted a ship. The first mate took out his bosun's whistle and "blew and blew and blew for some twenty minutes. It was that tiny whistle that made the Italian rescue ship [Provvidenza] change her course and head for us. They let down a rope ladder, but we all had to be helped to be dragged up. Whiskey and wine were given to the men. Auntie and I drank water. We refused food, we were that tired. So they let us go to sleep. Well, that...
Yesterday the head of the German Navy, Grand Admiral Raeder, officially informed the American Government, through the United States Naval Attache in Berlin that according to information on which he relied, an American ship, the Iroquois, is to be sunk when it nears our American east coast...
This week, in the great white Bloomsbury building which the Ministry took over from the University of London, the Censorship Department went to work under a new head: Sir Walter Monckton, 48, onetime legal adviser to King Edward VIII. Each Government department now issues its own news as it did before the War, has its own censors, responsible to Sir Walter. From their Whitehall offices bulletins go to Bloomsbury. There newsmen write dispatches, submit them to a second board of censors before they can be released...
...these firings, President Conant was taken to task by the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa and the Teachers Union. When Professor Harold Hitchings Burbank, head of the economics department, quit the University, the campus believed he did so as a protest, although he denied it. Last week there were other open protests besides the Progressive's, which cried that the "strange case of the assistant professors" was "more disquieting . . . than the cases of previous years. . . . Harvard education itself is at stake. . . . The disregard for undergraduate teaching, the attack on faculty security and morale, the flouting of academic democracy...
...mighty worried about complaints against him that had been made to Acting President Paul M. Hebert. Thereupon George Heidelberg rode home to his house in Baton Rouge, sent the cabbie to the kitchen to brew him a pot of strong coffee, and pumped a bullet through his head...