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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legal compulsion, but a moral responsibility has Harvard to share her peerless facilities for dispensing knowledge with the general public. University Hall, realizing this, has boldly ventured into the field of adult education with such projects as the public distribution of the American History Reading List and the broadcast of significant faculty lectures...
...walled City of Jerusalem, ruled during 30 centuries by Jebusites, Hebrews, Greeks, Romans, Christians, Persians, Arabs, Turks and British, fell again last week. It was the latest of a long list of occupations of Jerusalem since the time that King David's powerful Hebrew forces, gaining an entrance through the city's waterworks, took the Jebusite stronghold in the Eleventh Century...
...German Jews there was little rejoicing. They were being examined last week preparatory to the name-changing on January 1. All Jews born after that date must be labeled with an unmistakably Jewish first name, specified in a published Nazi list. Jewish men whose present names differ from those on the list must now add Israel, Jewish women must tag on Sarah. Reported by many correspondents as also planned for the New Year by Germany's rampant anti-Semitic rulers was a more-drastic-than-ever decree forbidding Jews to work for Aryans, to own or work in factories...
Pious Mr. Connolly did not forget he was a Hearstman. He scrambled across barbed-wire fences to a farmhouse telephone and shot the story to his International News Service in Manhattan, scooping other services by an hour or more; kept the only list of passengers in his pocket after rival newshawks arrived. Afterwards he got bandages around two cut fingers...
That worried comment-referring, ironically enough, to the steel industry, which scarcely three months ago headed the Anti-Monopoly Committee's list of suspects-was made last fortnight by Chairman Philip Murray of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee. Last week Philip Murray had reason to be reassured, for a two-month state of undeclared war in the industry was ended, temporarily at least, by an undeclared truce...