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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Friday, Sept. 30:--Today I saw one of the things in the News that makes me understand Harvard less and less. It was a happy little notice about how Harry Downer got a scholarship up at Cambridge just because his name was Downer. This doesn't make any sense to me. What can be so attractive about the name Downer that people give him scholarships? Especially a feebly growing Downer who is self-admittedly a lazy sort of blighter. Why no Botsford scholarships? I bet erg for erg I can out-lethargy Downer every time out. And if Downer...
...performance. South American airtime is sold not so much by hours, as by minutes, seconds. Therefore, when Latin American radio stations give anything away free, the gifts are small. Last week Radio Splendid (Buenos Aires) gave a three-minute daily period for long-wave rebroadcasting of U. S. news, shortwaved by NBC. German, French, Italian short-wavers have similar three-minute periods for their news...
Most exciting broadcasts, however, were not straight news but eyewitness impressions by U. S. journalists and radiomen...
...timidity of business as a whole appeared best in two broad indices, the stockmarket and the volume of commercial loans. Last week the market rebounded vigorously on the news that Czechoslovakia would give in to Hitler. In two days the Dow-Jones industrial averages jumped from 134.1 to 139.2. Then came the breakdown in negotiations, and traders pulled in their necks. The news came after Eastern exchanges were closed and dumping hit the San Francisco Exchange with a rush...
...unreal philosophical conversations about woman's responsibilities, that it might have been written in an effort to check Britain's declining birth rate. Mother of three sons and a daughter, Enid Bagnold in private life is Lady Roderick Jones, wife of the chairman of Reuters, leading British news agency...