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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Inside Europe, first published three years ago and since continuously revised to keep up-to-date, Correspondent John Gunther wrote a swift, popular handbook of present-day Europe. His system was to take a country, give the lives, habits and personalities of its leaders, put in a few choice anecdotes, make a few sound generalizations about the people, sketch in historical background, retell the nation's most recent and dramatic episodes and then move on to the next country, where the same process was repeated...
...Inside Asia,* published this week, Author Gunther tries out this technique on Asia and produces much the same kind of book: a lively, gossipy, not too profound but interesting encyclopedia of present-day Asia. Jumping-off place for Inside Europe was Germany; Inside Asia begins with Japan. From Japan, the book takes the reader to Manchukuo, makes a brief stopover in Siberia, moves on to China and then, going south and east by way of the Philippines and The Netherlands Indies, rounds the Malay Peninsula for a look at Siam, India, Afghanistan, Tibet, Nepal, Burma, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Trans...
...lectures, demonstrations, clinics, and discussions on the etiology, epidemiology, and methods of control of some of the most important virus and rickettsial diseases. The attempt will be to bring together, through surveys of research and literature, the reliable results of investigation in this relatively new field up to the present time...
Governor Leverett Saltonstall '14 will not receive an honorary degree June 22, it was learned last night, when Jerome D. Greene '96 secretary of the Corporation disclosed that the Board of Overseers never confers degrees upon its own members, Governor Saltonstall is at present a member of the Board...
...chief executive has not wasted much time in dry dock before heading again for heavy weather. President Conant has just fired ten assistant professors. For the benefit of the national press services, let us hasten to add that he has not really "fired" them; he has converted their present contracts into terminating appointments. Of course he has a reason his personal interpretation of the Committee of Eight's report...