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...Moscow Art in 1898. He soon found that organization too "bourgeois," moved on to St. Petersburg among the intellectuals. After the 1917 Revolution his anarchistic technique, based on the premise that any means is justifiable in bringing audience and actor closer together, made him for five years the master of theatrical revels in shell-shocked Russia...
Already a diamond tycoon at 20, Cecil Rhodes is given "six months to live" by a Dr. Jameson (Basil Sydney), who examines him in South Africa in 1873. Ten years later he is not only still alive but master of South African diamond mines. With the help of Dr. Jameson, now his best friend, he pushes on to fulfill his lifelong ideal-to unite South Africa, then the whole world, under the British Empire. His first step is to absorb Matabeleland, lush jungle nation ruled by King Lobengula. As Premier, he next tries to get Transvaal, ruled by the Boers...
President Conant, Dean Pound of the Law School, and James P. Baxter, 3rd '26, associate professor of History and Master of Adams House, will speak on Wednesday evening, March 18, at the annual dinner of the Harvard Club of Boston...
Professor Jones was born in 1892 and has been a professor at Michigan since 1930. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1914 and received his Master's degree at the University of Chicago a year later...
Well, the reason lies not for distant. Those master-oppressions of labor, the Rockefellers, with almost a century's experience and through three generations, have kept the elevator boys in their center from true, vigorous, united, class-conscious mass-action through the most underhanded, myet effective methods of nose grinding yet devised; they pay high wages, help their workers in organizing, give them pensions, work them reasonably short hours, educate them to weak cooperation with their employers...