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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Freedom, she is helping in the campaign to obtain signatures to The People's Mandate. This is a petition demanding of governments immediate cessation of war and all preparations for war, and use of the existing machinery for peace. Being circulated now in 44 countries, the goal is 20 million signatures in the United States and 15 thousand in Cambridge...
Compared with the income of the year 1932-33 this amount indicates a decrease of approximately a million dollars. Tuition remained fairly steady: it showed an increase of $6000 over the previous year, while the tuition receipts in 1932-33 exceeded last year's by $112,000. The greatest decrease came in the extra-academic classification of investments and gifts, and accounted for nearly the entire difference of a million dollars...
...Thanks a Million. To get Dick Powell for the lead in this topical, pell-mell musical cinema. Producer Zanuck traded Fredric March to Warner Bros, for Anthony Adverse. A troupe of entertainers, stuck in a small town on a rainy night, strangle into a political rally to get dry and become part of the election machinery when Troupe Manager Fred Allen sells the candidate for Governor the idea of spicing up his speeches with songs by the Yacht Club Boys, Rubinoffs fiddling. Before long Dick Powell wins the party nomination, campaigns successfully with speeches guaranteed not to last more than...
...chemists were out of work, 85% of all engineers, over 90% of all architects and draftsmen. Analyzed in terms of goods and services that might have been produced if prosperity had not broken down, "there was, in the five years of depression 1930-34, a loss of $185,000 million. . . . This is stupendous and unparalleled, almost ungraspable in its immensity. . . . There never was economic waste on this gigantic scale." Lewis Corey holds that Fascism is no answer, but middle-class readers, visualizing the grim alternatives before them, are likely to experience despair, implore, like Milton's Satan...
Last year needy students obtained over a million dollars with the assistance of the University to defray their expenses...