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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through her camera at Cornell Miss Bourke-White had started to catch beauty and expressiveness in stone and steel. She began photographing the campus because she needed money. Soon she had students selling her pictures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ace Photographer | 11/27/1937 | See Source »

...coupon-clippers were amazed and delighted to see Miss Bourke-White's pictures of soaring cranes and smokestacks on their stockholders' statements and dividend reports. When the depression came, manufacturers cut out the luxury of panegyrizing grimy Big Business...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ace Photographer | 11/27/1937 | See Source »

From Madeira School in Greenway, Virginia, according to the CRIMSON correspondent there, comes the report that Miss Madeira, teaching a Bible class, commented favorably on the fact that "a group of Harvard boys are teaching other less fortunate boys...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROOKS HOUSE SOCIAL WORK PRAISED BY SCHOOL MISTRESS | 11/24/1937 | See Source »

Pointing out that "even dictators are not immortal," Miss Brittain said that the longer war was delayed, the smaller would be the chance of its coming at all. The success of European statesmen in preventing crises more serious than any that led to the World War from leading to another is the most hopeful element in the present situation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VERA BRITTAIN SAYS WAR NOT INEVITABLE IF PESSIMISM CEASES | 11/23/1937 | See Source »

...Miss Brittain, whose latest book is "Honorable Estate," was a nurse during the war, and has since been actively associated with peace groups. Describing herself as only an observer and "no expert on international law," she traced in her lecture the decline of the anti-war reaction after the war and the rise of the new militarism which came on the heels of the Wall Street crash of 1929. Nothing the new military enthusiasm of the German people, she termed Hitler a "complete religious fanatic" and called his rise to power the most important event since...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VERA BRITTAIN SAYS WAR NOT INEVITABLE IF PESSIMISM CEASES | 11/23/1937 | See Source »

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