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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Commented Nobel Novelist Sinclair Lewis: "There is no longer any way for the Duke of Windsor to make himself useful to the world...
...from the Popular Front Cabinet today to "keep order"-but that any onetime Premier should so utterly lack discretion as to blurt out brutal facts of this kind and give the politicians' show away, last week astonished Europe. But there was no outcry that French Democracy should no longer employ "secret funds" since these are considered a necessary weapon always in reserve for quick action against the quick-acting dictators...
Three whole days later Berlin correspondents still were unable to get any official German source to confirm that Dr. Schacht is no longer Minister of Economics. Apparently mystic Adolf Hitler wants to keep for Germany the talismanic kudos of the Schacht name in the world of international finance, while at the same time permitting General Göring to indulge in expenditures for rearmament on a scale Dr. Schacht has warned is beyond the practical limits of Germany's resources. From 1 p. m. until 6 p. m. one day last week General Göring conferred with...
Harvard appears to have struck the mid-season spot when injuries begin to catch up with the team, when reserves start to come into their own, when the silvery hairs start making their appearance on the pates of coaches, and when the odds for winning games start getting longer and longer...
Another cause for complaint that has reached loud proportions during the last week is the feeling among undergraduates that professors and tutors, who are allowed to take books out for as long as they desire, subject only to an annual spring check-up by the Library, are holding books longer than they have any right to them. Although it appears beyond reasonable doubt that most professors lean over backward to return books promptly for which there has been any demand, it is nevertheless true that some instructors in the University have built up tremendous aggregations of library books in their...