Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spanish nightmare of recent months has been fear that Germany and Italy would exact participation in a European war as return for their participation in the Spanish war. Last week the Soviet-German Pact gave Spain a perfect out, which she was quick to seize. How could Spain fight hand in hand with Communism, which she had spent three years stamping out? Last week General Francisco Franco took steps to insure absolute neutrality: closed Spain's border with France, hastened demobilization of his troops, dissolved surviving branches of his General Staff...
...National Championship was played at the Wee Burn Club in Noroton, Conn., the topflight women golfers of the U. S. could look the menfolk square in the eye. Redheaded, 21-year-old Patty Berg, No. 1 woman golfer, was unable to defend her title because of a recent appendectomy. But there were 198 other girls (including the champions of two foreign countries) who kept the galleries beguiled. Outstanding were...
...recent years the Faculty, now grown too large and unwieldy for a practical deliberative and advisory body, has been largely replaced by the Faculty Council. This body of 65 men, representing all departments and elected by the whole Faculty, acts on behalf of the Faculty in consulting with the President on matters of policy. Like the visiting committees, however, the Council is in no sense a legislative body...
...students will quickly be introduced to Cambridge politics in a mayoralty campaign that promises to be one of the hottest in recent years, when the issue of taxing tax-exempt Harvard is raised by one or more of the candidates...
Last week Joe Yule, who has done bits in Idiot's Delight and two other recent pictures, was signed to a three-year contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Mickey's home lot. Salary: $100 a week, $25 more than he was earning at the Follies. Promptly assigned a bit as a stagehand in Fast and Furious with Franchot Tone and Ann Sothern, Joe Yule modestly remarked: "My ambition is to be as much of a success in the movies as I was on the stage...