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Dates: during 1930-1939
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JAMES M. LANDIS, brilliant Roosevelt "brain truster" and chairman of the New Deal's Securities and Exchange Commission, will return to Harvard next September to become the new "boss" of many of the teachers that started him on his successful law career. Three weeks ago Harvard's Pres. James Bryant Conant announced that Mr. Landis had accepted the appointment as dean of the Crimson's famed law school to succeed equally famed Roscoe Pound...
...ceremony replete with all the color that scarlet, golden threaded, ermine-collared robes slashed with white and green could give it, 567 delegates from every state in the Union and 40 foreign countries were received by Pres-Conant in Sanders Theatre...
...pistol with which to shoot Stalin. "The chance did not come, however," added David. "Police were in the same box with me." Over & over Kamenev, Zinoviev and other prisoners got around to confessing in various ways that their purpose as conspirators was simply to kill Russia's pres-ent rulers and become masters of the State themselves, with no program in mind as to how they would run Russia, and no smallest criticism at the trial last week of anything ever done by Joseph Stalin...
Died. Ellen Fitz Pendleton, 72; from 1911 to her retirement this year (TIME, May 25) the stately, omnicompetent "Pres. Penn" of Wellesley College; of a paralytic stroke; in Newton, Mass...
...Wellesley's presidents, none but Ellen Fitz Pendleton has been a Wellesley alumna. Modern Wellesley is the creation of snow-haired, precise "Pres. Penn," who in 25 years increased the "college's endowment by $7,000,000, ruled it with an iron hand. Early in President Pendleton's term the famed 1914 Fire burned most of Wellesley to the ground. Undismayed, the president set out to build a vast neo-Gothic plant which now covers the Waban campus with tons of imposing stone. Big (1,500 students) and expensive ($500 tuition), Wellesley thinks of itself...