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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Have managed to pick up or read (at American clubs usually) all copies up to Oct. 4. Amazing where one finds TIME. . . . Up at the KMA Compound, at Chinwangtao for instance; only there, two of the Jap Conquerors were reading the only issues available. ... On the S.S. Kaiping for instance. She's a stinking little coal-tramp, plies between Chinwangtao and Shanghai, British boat, British and Chinese crew, and never leaves China's waters, but out of 27 old and lop-eared magazines in the dining-reading-card-smoking-lounging room, 13 were American of which six were...
...college professor in civil engineering and a highways man (not to be confused with highwayman), but shouldn't your TIME, Nov. 13 description of the farm life of Artist Dahlov ZorachIpcar that she "does not milk or drive a car," have a comma after "milk," or read "does not drive a car, or milk" ? Or has Ford done something bovine to his autos...
...both: "The ruthless bombing from the air of civilians in unfortified centres of population . . . has sickened the hearts of every civilized man and woman and has profoundly shocked the conscience of humanity." He requested an immediate reply from both countries. At his press conference the President went further, read in a grave, strained voice: "The news of the Soviet naval and military bombings within Finnish territory has come as a profound shock to the Government and people of the United States. Despite efforts made to solve the dispute by peaceful methods to which no reasonable objection could be offered...
...George Washington University. He was such a whiz at Latin, Greek and German that one of his professors casually said he ought to get a language appointment in the foreign service. He liked the idea, got a list of required subjects for the diplomatic exams, borrowed some books, read without instruction, passed in a walk, and before he knew it was at the end of the world...
Elliot L. Richardson '41 of Winthrop House and Brookline was last night elected President of the Lampoon succeeding Edward Cameron Kirk Read '40. With the rest of the newly chosen Board, Richardson will take office after the start of the next term...