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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...locally distinguished Seattle attorney, Stephen F. Chadwick, 44, son of a late Chief Justice of the Washington Supreme Court, veteran of the brave but futile U. S. Siberian Expeditionary Force of 1918. Legionnaire Chadwick was chosen because: 1) in calibre he was considered several cuts above some of his recent predecessors; 2) The Kingmakers thought his selection would finally squelch the Legion's No. 1 Pretender and rebel, Detroit's Corporation Counsel Raymond J. Kelley. Last week Pretender Kelley and every other rival candidate withdrew without firing a word. With King Chadwick safely made, the serious minority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Kingmakers | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...worst of the lesser evils around Harvard Square in recent years has been the practice of panhandling by clever professional hums. Newcomers to Harvard, especially, should be aware of this insidious form of getting aims, for by giving these men nickels and dimes they stoop to the weakness of misplaced sentiment. Not only do they abet a common evil, but at the same time they work against organized Cambridge charities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMENDING SAINT PAUL | 9/23/1938 | See Source »

...year before last he devoted to the production of a work containing the best known text of all Shakespeare's plays. In recent months he has travelled about the country, speaking in several colleges. Frequently he may be glimpsed striding across the Yard, straight and immaculate, heading toward the steps of Widener...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Born Late, 1942 Will Miss Four Harvard Traditions | 9/23/1938 | See Source »

...made Mexico City its headquarters, provided that its president must reside there and then elected Vicente Lombardo Toledano first president. In flattering compliment to President Cárdenas, who last week won for Mexican Federal employes the right to strike, the constitution borrowed almost the exact words of a recent Cárdenas radioration as its charter: that "the principal task of the Latin American working class consists in winning full economic and political autonomy for Latin American nations. . . . Fascism is opposed to the objectives of the proletariat and must be combated in all its forms." The Congress asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Capricorn to Cancer | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

...recent years Oxford Groupers have concluded that '"God-control" could, and should, change not only individuals but nations and the world. One instance of this belief which gives pause to many an anti-Fascist is the Buchmanite notion that dictators are fine fellows who simply need a little Buchmanite guidance to become good Buchmanites-and incidentally order their obedient millions to do likewise. Last week in London, world headquarters of the Group, and in Switzerland, where Buchmanites have held many an international gathering, Dr. Buchman's current strategy bore newsworthy results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Moral Rearmament | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

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