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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that is not enough on which to send four children through college. Back in private practice, Lawyer Keenan can easily make several times $12,500 a year. His standing with the Janizariat is ace high. Yet because his unswerving efforts in the Supreme Court fight and the Purge were known to be based more on loyalty than conviction, he stands almost as well with anti-Administrationists. Irish, homely, blunt, honest Joe Keenan has a few enemies, but they are mostly behind bars or under sod, like Machine-Gun Kelly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Eighth Inning | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

From Paris André Géraud (Pertinax), known for his information sources in the French Foreign Office, cabled to the Baltimore Sun: "Italy is hastening all kinds of preparations in Libya. She is accumulating war material and building an airdrome in Kufra. She is gathering troops along the borders of French Somaliland. As to Germany, she will have 1,500,000 men under arms about March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Ides of March | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...would like to come to Harvard," announced Faith Bacon, well known fandancer and artiste last night, "but some of the less liberal minded professors might object...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faith Bacon, Fan and Orchid Dancer, Would Like To Perform "Apres-Midi d'un Faune" at Harvard | 2/25/1939 | See Source »

...recent mild attack for a course on marriage at Harvard seems to me to expose one of the weaknesses of contemporary college education: students seem unable to known how to learn something if there is no course on the subject. If one has any deep desire to get a well-grounded view of marriage he could get reading recommendations from a tutor in Sociology or a Sociology concentrator. There are a few recent books which discuss the subject as would be done in an undergraduate course and two or three of these are adequate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 2/25/1939 | See Source »

...system has replaced the former posteard system in order that the results may become known sooner. This year the new president will be known the day after the election...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EIGHT JUNIORS NAMED IN P.B.H. NOMINATIONS | 2/24/1939 | See Source »

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