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...compulsory Student Activities Fee is a proposal which carries tremendous import for future Radcliffe undergraduates. The voters at tomorrow's meeting should consider the issues carefully before committing themselves to so drastic a program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe at the Crossroads | 3/24/1948 | See Source »

There is no specialist in Russian geography connected with the University at the present time. It has, therefore, been necessary to import a visitor from outside to give the various geographical seminars on that country. When Mr. Ackerman's appointment ends, the geographical study of China will be placed on the same basis. It will be very difficult, indeed, to find a man of equal ability...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conquered Fields | 3/23/1948 | See Source »

What he had written was in keeping with the general's style and past performance: "In this hour of momentous import, national and international, temporal and spiritual ... I can say, and with due humility, that I would be recreant to all my concepts of good citizenship were I to shrink because of the hazards and responsibilities involved from accepting any public duty to which I might be called by the American people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Announcement from Tokyo | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

...welcome mat for U.S. businessmen was put out by Bizonia last week. The Joint Export-Import Agency, which directs foreign trade for the U.S.-British occupation economy, upped the period foreign businessmen are allowed to stay from 15 to 30 days during any six-month period. It also promised them comfortable hotels, good food, taxis, and help in bartering with the Germans. The businessmen can send in food and raw materials in return for finished or semi-manufactured goods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Welcome from Bizonia | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

Bait. As propaganda against the 75% import tax on U.S. films, Hollywood was showing British audiences trailers of coming attractions that Britons won't be able to see. Cried a member of Parliament last week: "[The Government should] prevent this method of agitating for a change in our fiscal policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facts & Figures, Mar. 15, 1948 | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

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