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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russia, Rumania, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, notably omitting Germany, Italy and Poland. Just how tough a job of statesmanship M. Blum had set himself was indicated last week by Chicago Daily News Correspondent Edgar Ansel Mowrer: "The chief problem confronting . . . Leon Blum, is whether France is to ... descend to the rank of a third-rate power. ... It is safe to say that never since the end of the Franco-Prussian war has Europe had less confidence in the ability of France to maintain its present position. As for the very dominant position taken naturally by France immediately after the War, there...
...unbearable to thing that victory should be snatched away by such a minor tribulation when the rank and file are ready and eager to step into the fray. Lack of leadership cannot be brooked, especially when there are thousands in the party coffers just waiting to be spent for some worthwhile cause, such as college propaganda and the dissemination of useful knowledge among the undergraduates of America. Perhaps a flying squad could be rushed to Cambridge from New York in order to organize and lead some semblance of form and purpose to this potentially worthwhile group; publicity could be issued...
...Pacific section came out of the bloody 1934 San Francisco general strike with a pay scale of $62.50 a month, overtime pay, control of their hiring halls. On the east coast, however, the Union remained in conservative hands, wangled only a $57.50 pay scale with no overtime. The rank & file began demanding the west coast scale. When the Union failed to get it after the old wage agreement expired last winter, seamen on the 5. 5. California struck in protest in San Pedro, Calif. Harbor (TIME, March 16). Persuaded by Secretary of Labor Perkins to return to work, they took...
...total of 280 students graduating this year from Middle Western secondary schools have applied for the available Harvard College Prize Fellowships, a recent survey has disclosed. Of this number 133 rank first scholastically in their respective classes...
...special chamber of horrors for overburdened Freshmen, as seen by the Committee report, lies in the realm of the sciences, with Chemistry being the rank offender. Under present conditions the University Catalogue of Courses is valuable for just one thing: look in it to see what the length of your laboratory periods WONT be! University Hall is guilty of at least carelessness, if indeed nothing worse, when the Catalogue indicates three-hour laboratory periods for Chemistry A B, while experience invariably shows a period of from four and a-half to five hours to be the normal requirement...