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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the 45,000,000 citizens of Brazil celebrated two anniversaries-their 50th as a Republic, their second as a dictatorship. In honor of the occasion, plump Dictator-President Getulio Vargas proclaimed a paternal decree setting up a national commission for the protection of parents with many children...
Eight men are elected to the honor society in their Junior year, sixteen in the fall of their Senior year and approximately 50 at graduation...
John Reed '10, in whose honor the Society was named, was one of the world's best known Communists. As a war correspondent in Russia, he joined with Lenin and Trotsky, fighting during the Bolshevist Revolution. When Reed was killed in action, the Russians buried him in the Kremlin...
...Peace Prize was awarded to tuberculous Pacifist Carl von Ossietsky, whom the Nazis had under heel in a concentration camp. Last week Professor Domagk discreetly referred to his Government the question of what to do about his award, murmured: "Even if I don't receive the money, the honor of being named is a most agreeable surprise." A less agreeable surprise to a half-dozen other scientists who had their hopes was the Nobel committee's announcement that, on account of World War II, the other 1939 prizes were withheld - possibly until next year, probably for good...
...death five years ago, a group of conservative Los Angeles socialites managed to keep his orchestra alive, but gave it less lavish rations. Proud were they of getting as permanent conductor world-famed Otto Klemperer. While the plump palms of Los Angeles' highty-tighty delighted to honor the Los Angeles Orchestra, neighbors from Hollywood's film colony stayed away in droves, and nobody was sorry...