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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present our government is preparing industry on a vast scale for a climax known as "M" day. It has been brought to my attention by several people concerned with the coffin industry that their business is being completely overlooked. During World War I the shattered remains of Americans were buried in foreign coffins, thereby showing how we failed to give domestic employment to hundreds, as well as dividends to the coffin stockholders. Therefore I am hoping that TIME will support this noble cause by demanding that our government order from various coffin makers hundreds of thousands of coffins and have...
...humane 'methods by which he has waged war. I can only say that methods are not made humane by calling them so, and accounts of German bombing of open towns and machine gunning of refugees have shocked the world. . . . Our general purpose in this struggle is well known. It is to redeem Europe from the perpetually recurring fear of German aggression and to enable the peoples of Europe to preserve their independence and liberties. . . . Hitler's speech at Danzig yesterday did not change the situation...
...well-known authority on Elizabethan literature, Spencer is believed to be the first American to held a permanent teaching job in the field of English literature at either Oxford or Cambridge...
...Divinity School has 64; the Graduate School of Public Administration, commonly known as the Littauer School, has an enrollment of 13. There are 22 Junior Fellows and 12 Nieman Fellows in Journalism...
...many of Harvard's outstanding teachers. We dislike being deprived of brilliant lecturers and stimulating tutors. We resent the consequent impairment of educational standards. We feel, to put it bluntly, that we are being cheated." In developing this theme, Mr. Ross indulges in little special pleading for the known victims of what he calls "President Conant's slide-rule"--rather he looks into the future warning that "the elimination of an entire age group in the faculty is threatened--one which provides most of the experienced teaching available to undergraduates." While Mr. Ross devotes a good part of his analysis...