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...Presidents retired peacefully after completing their terms. A President remained in power as long as his armed forces were stronger than those of the combined opposition. Anxious to attain power, general after general made a grab at the Presidency, and revolution followed revolution. Bribery and corruption were part and parcel of the whole system. From collectors of taxes to school teachers, all tried to get a little more for themselves by playing politics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: History and Present Social Conditions in Haiti Are Described by Former Member of Legation | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

Harvard Juniors must within another week commit themselves definitely as to whether they do or do not wish to become part and parcel of the House Plan during their Senior year. In other words, the system which has been so deplored and so defended at Cambridge and at New Haven will now receive its first and perhaps its most vital test, that of undergraduate support or condemnation. Each junior at Cambridge must decide whether he desires to align himself with the new Harvard or prefers to complete his course under the traditional social system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 12/7/1929 | See Source »

...Harvard, especially, is the long, sinister finger of suspicion pointed, for a car bearing a Massachusetts license was seen to drive off after several men allegedly loaded the vehicle with a large, bulky parcel which they carried out of the building in which the each singles are located. Princeton and Yale undergraduates are also variously reported to be implicated in the roberry. On the New Haven campus, in fact, the university authorities are said to have threatened expulsion for any Eli undergraduates found to be implicated in the removal of the Blue shrine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard, Yale and Princeton Fall Suspect to Theft of Eli Fence--One Indefinite Clue Points to Harvard Students | 11/20/1929 | See Source »

...until 2:15 p. m. did Foreign Minister Rada y Gamio scrawl his signature for the 138th time onto the final document giving the very last parcel of Tacna to Peru...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Midnight Cure | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

...raised by his wife. Author Deeping, whose Roper's Row bears some slight hero-resemblance to Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage, writes with experience of medicine, which he practiced before and during the World War. Deeping's previous Sorrell and Son was rated part and parcel of Anglo-Saxon realism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Again, Deeping | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

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