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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mr. Langley introduced himself as a "retired businessman." He had long been interested in education and he had an idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Russell's Congress | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

Dean Russell and Mr. Langley began by inviting businessmen to talk at T. C. Then they formed a Lay Council to advise the college, including Chase National Bank's Winthrop W. Aldrich (chairman), A. T. & T.'s Walter Gifford, New York Times's Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger. Last year, having found that educators and businessmen made uneasy companions, Dean Russell hit upon a cause that he thought would wed them: democracy v. totalitarianism. He decided to ho!d at T. C. a great Congress on Education for Democracy. He and Mr. Aldrich went to Europe to invite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Russell's Congress | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...morning this week a ketch-rigged three-master put to sea from a Brooklyn shipyard. It was captained by a famed racing yacht skipper, Paul Hammond, and among its crew were Harvard undergraduates, Mr. and Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow Jr. (see above) and the wife and eldest daughter of Harvard's Professor Samuel Eliot Morison. Professor Morison sat tall and erect in the bow, clutching a copy of Christopher Columbus' journal in one hand, a notepad and pencil in the other. The professor and his companions were setting out on a Harvard expedition to retrace part of Columbus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: After Columbus | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...this turn of events were chiefly professional traders. SEC has since reported that at the peak, in the last half of July, while the public was buying heavily, Exchange members did 78% of all short selling. Last week the public thought that the professionals were lucky in finding Mr. Hitler working for them at Danzig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Out of Pattern | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...benediction was pronounced by Mr. Lilienthal before he went back to Washington. Said he: ". . . This would seem to be a good time for the utilities and TVA both to devote all of their energies to the considerable work we each have to do. The TVA now will be able to concentrate upon its main purpose: the development of the Tennessee Valley." Public utilitarians devoutly hoped these words could be taken as a promise of no more Government competition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Appomattox Court House | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

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