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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quote the New York Times as saying: "Men and women in Salem, two centuries ago, were burned for witchcraft far less amazing. . . ." Cannot your magazine help to put the quietus on this old lie, which crops up periodically? No witches were ever burned in New England: a number were hanged and one was pressed to death-a record of which we are not proud, but at least we are not guilty of the more cruel accusation...
...Churchill made his weekly speech about the effectiveness of the effective British blockade of Germany's munitions and commodity supply lines. The tonnage figures sounded good to Parliament (see p. 21), and so did his announcement that since war began Great Britain has been able to triple the number of her submarine hunters. Last August ?11,000,000 was appropriated for construction of small anti-submarine craft...
...same morning. The Foreign Office spokesman said that Japan will not remain indifferent if the U. S. expands her naval expenditures. Japan's Washington Embassy published a list of settlements of U. S. claims against Japan, as if to disprove Ambassador Crew's charges. Number of claims announced as settled: six. Number of claims outstanding: over...
Expressing complete satisfaction with the number of undergraduates who have applied already this fall for study guidance (and subsequent tutoring in some cases under graduate school specialists), Stanley C. Salmen '36 said that he was pleased with the progress of the Supervision Bureau. Salmen is the Secretary of the seven-professor Committee on the Supervision of Students...
However, in adopting the Harvard plan, Yale has taken the bad with the good. True no immediate firing took place, but the system of promotions becomes inflexible. Predictable vacancies based on actuarial tables govern the number of advancements and the number of dismissals. Rarely, if ever, does the number of desirable men coincide with the number of predicted vacancies...