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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Behind the new Littauer School of Public Administration are the Law School buildings, and the new Hemenway Gymnasium. On Oxford Street, beyond the New Lecture Hall, are the Mallinckrodt Chemical Laboratories...
With "Four Feathers," Hollywood offers to what has now become a somewhat suspecting public another example of victorious British imperialism. Mr. Mason's story of a coward seeking to regain his self-respect while England is avenging the murder of General Gordon no longer proves to be very exciting, or even interesting, fare. Whether it is the slow-paced direction or the European war that detracts from the glory of the Sudan campaign and Omdurman is hard to tell. It is probably a combination of both, with the former chiefly at fault. Although the photography is excellent, too great...
...threat was peace. If peace comes unexpectedly, before enormous export orders bail out those who last week speculated on that huge business, U. S. industry might face a 1921-type collapse. The Securities and Exchange Commission kept a weather eye out for a peace scare that might shake the public out of the market, precipitate a crash severe enough to compel it to close markets; or the New York Stock Exchange to fix maximum daily price changes...
...Capital Goods spending, the crisis had put into Franklin Roosevelt's hands the means of carrying it out in the name of preparedness. Gone was the Administration's peacetime notion of self-liquidating projects. Peace itself had been liquidated. Last week even Henry Morgenthau, who opposed public works spending, rehired Chicago's learned Jacob Viner, Princeton's Winfield William Riefler, No. 1 & 2 Treasury anti-spending brain trusters, and Princeton's Walter W. Stewart, to advise him how to spend for preparedness in the U. S.'s greatest crisis...
Practitioners of an inexact science torn by dissension, psychologists are often suspected of having an inferiority complex. If they are so afflicted, they seldom betray it in public. Last week, however, Dr. Gordon W. Allport of Harvard, retiring president of the American Psychological Association, declared that as prophets of human behavior psychologists are not in the running with statesmen, lawyers and headwaiters...