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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...state that " The religious difference has been greatly overemphasized." According to the latest World Almanach p.199, Northern Ireland has: Roman Catholics 420,000 Protestants 836,000 Also you state that Northern Ireland is economically depressed and riddled with corruption. Northern Ireland has a balanced budget and a neat profit of ?1,227,000 while Southern Ireland has a deficit of ?2,573,000. As for the "Divide and Rule" idea it seems that no one remembers that division came first and the ruling afterwards. Would TIME prefer civil war? We once fought to make the South remain a part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 15, 1940 | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...delegates was unemployment. Keynoted Maynard C. Krueger (rhymes with eager) of the University of Chicago: "We Socialists are not interested in trying to make the Capitalist system work. Hoover and Roosevelt have tried that and proved that it can't be done." Private business representing production for profit instead of production for use, said he, has failed. The people must assume the responsibility of running the economic system. There is no law, declared Mr. Krueger, that we must wander for 40 years in the wilderness. "Many still cast their eyes backward and long for the 'good old days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Socialists Convene | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

Breaking a custom of long standing, the Harvard Dramatic Club has decided to stage its spring play, "The Ascent of F6," with three student directors father than professionals, John Profit will be chief director, assisted by Samuel R. Sheppared '42 and Jervis B. McMachan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATIC CLUB USES STUDENT PRODUCERS | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

...question came up whether student directors would prove equal to the job, but Profit has had expensive experience in the theatre particularly in London where he has stage several musicals. Sheppared and McMechan have both woked in summer theatres...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATIC CLUB USES STUDENT PRODUCERS | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

DETROIT -- Two young hoodlums, so cold-blooded they even dug a grave is advance for one of their victims, confessed tonight, according to police, the slayings of two men in a murder-for-profit scheme that netted them less than...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

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