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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the legal controversies over his appointment still raging Bertrand Russell, distinguished British philosopher, will arrive in the latter part of the week to take up his duties as visiting lecturer. Russell's seminary in Semantics is scheduled to start today but the meeting will be postponed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RUSSELL HERE FOR LECTURES | 9/25/1940 | See Source »

...date customarily regarded as the founding of Harvard is October 28, 1636, when the Great and General Court of Massachusetts "agreed to give 400 pounds toward a schoale or colledge." But according to Samuel Eliot Morison '08, professor of History, latter day Columbia, and official Harvard historian, "Over a year clapped before anything was done to carry into execution the generous vote . . . It was probably in July or August, 1638, that Master Eaton held the first recitations of the first freshman class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1940 SEEN AS REAL HARVARD TERCENTENARY YEAR, NOT '36 | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

...ourselves with the most perfect military mechanism we can devise? To do otherwise is to butcher innocent boys when war does eventuate, as Hitler so clearly points out. . . . We must choose now whether we will appease or fight if necessary, because in the training of an army, should the latter alternative be selected, time is of the essence. I for one am not in favor of appeasement, and I am not a legislator, but a young man subject to active service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 9, 1940 | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

...taxing them; they talked of boosting the top bracket rate from 40% to 82%. They also disliked Choice i, on the grounds that it would let slip the most profitable corporations. But their biggest objection was to the 20% depreciation allowance and the Vinson-Trammell repeal. Calling the latter "bribes" to induce manufacturers to do their duty under the Defense program, they would have preferred to hand business a bigger price tag with no package at all. Objection 2 came from the conservative wing, some of whose members also objected - for a different reason - to tying the tax bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Excess-Profits Tax | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

Many a 20th-century writer has shown the influence of the movies. Two who have thus added to the vitality of contemporary writing are Malraux and Dashiell Hammett; Paul Vialar is a third. Jerome himself so inescapably suggests Cinemactor Jean Cabin that the latter must have inspired him. Rose of the Sea is rather a printed movie than a novel, and with a few passages cut would be expert and beautiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Printed Movie | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

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