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In even less of a position to dictate to the Corporation than the Overseers in the matter of pulling the purse strings and hiring and firing is the Faculty. Although Harvard Presidents have made a practice of consulting in advance with the Faculty on impending changes in educational policy, the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORPORATION RUNSHARVARD | 9/5/1940 | See Source »

One straw in the wind is the announcement that a student group will sponsor a meeting on Friday, September 27, open to "all students who believe that the United States must immediately arouse and prepare itself for the seemingly inevitable war with Nazi Germany, (2) that we must make ourselves...

Author: By Spencer Klaw, | Title: War Talk Dominates Harvard During 1939-40 as Faculty and Students Split Over U. S. Role | 9/5/1940 | See Source »

According to a story published in a Dallas, Texas, newspaper, Trotsky's impending disposition of his archives was resented by former colleagues and friends of the exiled leader. The unsuccessful attempt to assassinate him by machine-gun fire, which preceded the recent axe-murder by three months was described in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WIDENER RECEIVES PERSONAL ARCHIVES OF THE LATE LEON TROTSKY IN DEAL | 9/5/1940 | See Source »

¶ Harry Hines, a churchgoing member of the Texas Highway Department. Pappy O'Daniel got out his sound truck (with a replica of the Capitol dome on top), hired some more entertainers (including Texas Rose, a girl ballad singer), and put on a two-week whirlwind campaign. In his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Pappy Over Cyclone | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

Only in the last five minutes did he turn to Britain. But there was still no concrete program for peace, no specific offer, no suggestion of a possible procedure. Almost as an afterthought he signified his willingness to accept Great Britain's capitulation, virtuously hoped to avoid the impending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Hitler Appeals to Reason | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

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