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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year of pourparlers in London and Washington, was at last ready to be hatched. Specifically, Mr. Hull asked all interested parties to submit to the State Department's Committee for Reciprocity Information by Dec. 16 their suggestions for bargaining. Thereafter formal notice of the negotiations together with a list of products to be discussed will be forthcoming...
...Life" is the best-selling magazine, 80 copies going in less than an hour every week. "Look" comes second with 65 while the non-picture-books are way down the list, "Colliers" and the "Satevepost" selling about 40 each. Philip Morris is the most popular cigarette...
...passengers, some of whom had transferred at the last moment from cabin to tourist class. In a freshly refurbished suite (80-82) on A Deck had crossed not the two people who were to have made the voyage elaborately newsworthy and whose names still headed the official passenger list-Der Herzog und die Herzogin von Windsor-but Socony- Vacuum's Vice President Edwy R. Brown & wife of Dallas...
...taxpayers: $5,000), subscribed to a clipping service and immediately plunged into a strenuous campaign to try to make a monkey of leading educational opinion. He issued a series of decrees changing the curriculum, setting up separate vocational and academic "tracks" in the high schools, eliminating mathematics from the list of required high-school subjects, directing that pupils do their homework not at home but in the classroom. When infantile paralysis delayed opening of the schools this fall, he staged an education-by-radio stunt. Last week Superintendent Johnson came out with the most spectacular and revolutionary decree...
John Bakeless adds to this small list a careful, 404-page biography of Marlowe that pulls together a mass of recently discovered Marlowe material, explodes a few hoary Marlowe legends, but leaves the poet as mysterious and romantic as ever. Making a studious attempt to avoid scholarly language, Mr. Bakeless nevertheless spends much time answering earlier scholars, tracks many incorrect interpretations down many blind alleys...