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We are not all bitter over Harvard's recent outburst. We simply look upon it as a clever piece of publicity and a method whereby the Old Grads will be ready for the coming change of policy at that Boston school. Of course this impending change of policy has not...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 10/23/1940 | See Source »

Twenty years ago last week a tall, hard-working Democrat of 38 was in the midst of a speechmaking campaign throughout the U. S. No vast crowds attended his meetings, no swarms of reporters hung on his words. The atmosphere was heavy with the powerful speeches of William Borah and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Viva la Democracia! | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

There are two essential gaps, it seems to me, in Marx reasoning. When he states quite correctly that "enrollments in the U.S. Army are greater than every before in peacetime," Marx forgets that it has been the impending passage of the conscription bill--and now the actual passage--which has...

Author: By Allan D. Ecker, | Title: LATEST "PROGRESSIVE" DEALS CHIEFLY WITH U. S. DEFENSE | 9/24/1940 | See Source »

Last week Harry Dalton, doling out patriotic literature from his Yorkville headquarters, found himself leading a full-fledged political movement. At a mass meeting 4,500 patriotic Yorkvillagers rallied round his Congressional candidate, Republican James Elaine Walker Jr., great-nephew of Garfield's and Harrison's Secretary of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Mr. McNazi | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

Last week U. S. campuses began to reopen under the shadow of war. Not a few jittery college presidents had feared that defense jobs and impending conscription might induce some students to drop out. Counting their fall enrollments last week, most colleges found them close to normal. An exception was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Defense & College | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

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