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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From cover to cover, it is consistently beautiful in typography, illustrations, and color printing. I particularly like the TIME flavor of the well-chosen, well-written articles. I compliment you upon your discriminating selection of subjects. They lack nothing in variety, freshness of viewpoint and general treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 3, 1930 | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

...handy crow's nest from which to follow the doings, or lack of them, at the London Naval Conference was found by President Hoover last week in his temporary offices in the State, War & Navy building. Acting Secretary of State Cotton was just down the corridor and around the corner. The President's door was open to him at any hour with despatches from Chief Delegate Stimson at St. James's palace. Downstairs in the cable room were expert telegraphers. Code clerks filled the code room from which all snoopers were shooed away. Tall, curly-haired Pierre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Cables, Codes, Mimeographs | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

...sandy, round-stomached, he plodded through his term, rarely made a speech, much less an oration. He was on the way to becoming a "lame duck" in this year's campaign when President Hoover selected him for Berlin for two chief reasons: 1) Republican Kentucky was restive from lack of Class-A patronage; 2) Senator Sackett had been Mr. Hoover's Kentucky food administrator during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Sackett to Berlin | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

Refreshing in its straightforwardness and lack of belligerency, Mr. Martin's article on careers after college, which appears elsewhere in today's CRIMSON, should prove distinctly startling to the average undergraduate. Accustomed as he is to a secure position in the university community, the idea of such intense personal competition in the business world is a striking contrast to the leisurely life of the student today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRST THINGS FIRST | 2/1/1930 | See Source »

...increasing measure of widespread discontent with which the whole innovation is regarded after three years of trial is in no way proportional to the use or lack of use of the facilities in Widener. Certainly the intrinsic value of the Reading Period cannot be based on the total aggregate of pages perused by a weary student body. If the Reading Period is in general disrepute, the fault lies in its inherent qualities of usefulness to the undergraduate. Another year of trial has made no appreciable difference...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEARY WIDENER BLUES | 1/28/1930 | See Source »

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