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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This will be the first of what is hoped to be triennial Regional Harvard Clubs Meetings, in order that delegates from Clubs that Conant cannot visit individually may hear the President and have some contact with the University...
...Deputies of Leftist Spain's Cortes evaded Rightist bombers long enough to hold a parliamentary session last week in the ancient monastery of Montserrat above Barcelona. They were mildly surprised to hear a message congratulating them on a "stirring example to all democratic peoples" signed by 60 members of the U. S. Congress, whose Neutrality Act they blame for keeping them short of munitions. Far from mild was the reaction felt in Washington when the Spanish Embassy released the message and Catholic groups over the U. S. indignantly demanded an explanation from the 26 Senators and 34 Representatives...
...honorary member of the Chicago Musicians Union. Presumably he will join the down-&-out Progressive Miners of America, recognition of which by the A.F. of L. was the basis of the Lewis charges of "treason." Bill Green's eyes were filled with tears when reporters filed in to hear the announcement...
...teams perform. For most of the week, nearly half the population of England, hoping to forecast the results of Saturday's big-league matches, had been nibbling pencils, marking numerals and crosses on little printed slips. Saturday night, three out of four Englishmen were gathered around radios to hear the results of the games. For soccer is the most popular sport in England...
Next day at Manhattan's Town Hall two able but unballyhooed musicians, Adolf Busch and Rudolf Serkin, played the same work exquisitely. Only a few hundred mousy music-lovers went to hear them, but in the gallery, listening appreciatively, was sharp-eyed Maestro Toscanini...