Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This must be the French cousin of our story. Or is ours the American version of the French story? Is there an English cousin? Will this story pop up wherever Hitler's mere existence is a blight or a threat? It is almost a folk tale already. I should like to hear further news...
...mere fact that the Corporation will conduct its enquiry means that at the present time no criteria for the use of halls exist. If this is so, however, Browder has been excluded without reason. Certainly the Corporation fails to specify any reason--unless by inference it is resting its case on the weak excuse previously advanced by Mr. Greene. In the absence of any verbal justification of the action, the suspicion grows that Browder is a persona non grata to Harvard authorities for more reasons than his passport peccadilloes...
...Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt was rich (rumor put his fortune at $20,000,000), was passionately fond of thoroughbreds, and had just bought a sizable interest in the old down-at-heels Pimlico race track outside Baltimore. But the prize he offered for his dream race was only $10,000, mere timothy to big U. S. stables.* Most racing experts did not give the Pimlico Special an outside chance to attain the prestige of a World Series or a Rose Bowl...
While American shipping concerns do not all have subsidiary organizations in other countries, any firm could set up a temporary "dummy" corporation in a Central or South American nation, and thus make a shift of registration a mere formality, he pointed...
...only an indictment, imposes no civil disability on Mr. Browder, and it feels that the question of "propriety" ought not to keep the students from hearing what he has to say. When permission was again requested for the use of New Lecture Hall, Mr. Greene went beyond mere suggestion and definitely refused. The refusal is an invasion of the rights guaranteed to Harvard students by the time-honored tradition of the University. It had been our understanding that the selection of speakers for undergraduate organizations was not one of Mr. Greene's duties...