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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russia last week rolled rumors of another impending famine. Many store shelves in Moscow were again reported empty. Travelers from the provinces said that food was scarce even in some rich agricultural sections. Soviet newspapers had recently criticized the widespread neglect of agricultural machinery, and failure to provide proper fuel for tractors, binders, harvesting machines. The Soviet Union's last famine, in 1933, was caused by peasant opposition to Dictator Stalin's collectivization program. The present agricultural difficulties seem to be caused: 1) by the chaotic conditions in the much-purged Commissariat of Agriculture; 2) by an attempt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Another Famine? | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...possibilities of a miss are too great, necessitating subsequent readjustments and consequent failure to capitalize fully on the benefits of the tutorial system. A solution lies in the use of freshman tutorial as a means of helping students to distinguish their aptitudes, and hence of guiding them into the proper fields...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNDISCOVERED GOLD | 11/25/1938 | See Source »

...belief induced by great expenditure that good gasoline is sold only under particular trade names. . . ." Admitting that present anti-trust laws are inadequate to limit advertising. Trust Buster Arnold nevertheless argued that "the purpose of the anti-trust laws will be furthered if advertising is limited to its proper function of building up consumption. . . ." How this limitation was effected in the Ford and Chrysler cases was readily apparent in Mr. Arnold's announcement that "antitrust prosecution will not be compromised upon mere agreement to cease the practices complained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Important Precedents | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...years went by, and the mother in Cambridge continued to be freer, more adventurous than her daughter in New Haven, and--in Santayana's phrase--to have "a single eye for the truth." Perhaps if Yale had lacked proper respect, she might have lifted her unyielding nose and branded the parent a hussy. The year 1858 underlined the differences in attitude, when six Harvard athletes picked the color which for them represented the tone of their alma mater. The occasion was the Boston City Regatta, at which Harvard deemed it necessary to have some distinctive mark. So the boat club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON HANDKERCHIEFS | 11/18/1938 | See Source »

...present in the case of Mr. Lamont, who was in no wise related to Richard Whitney, and had none but business contacts with him. Yet Mr. Lamont testified that he considered his failure to advise the Exchange authorities of Richard Whitney's criminal conduct entirely proper. J. P. Morgan testified that even if he had known of Richard Whitney's unlawful acts, he would not have reported them to the Exchange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETS: Code of Silence | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

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