Word: regional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today's announcement in the Harvard Crimson by Joseph F. Hudnut, Dean of the Faculty of Design, that: "the School of Regional Planning will resume operations next year", is heartening news to all of us, and will be also to everyone who is interested in orderly physical development of city, state and region. Only one thing could have exceeded our regret over discontinuance of the School--our joy and enthusiasm over its re-creation. A definite promise by the man directly responsible to President Conant has now assured the continuance of one of Harvard's most potent means of contributing...
...buildings were razed, a dozen bodies were recovered. One man was killed clearing wreckage, some 30 others were missing. Of the 5,000 firefighters in the woods, four were killed by falling trees. Army and WPA trucks, headlights aglow in the pall of smoke, nosed into the stricken region bearing food and portable shelter...
...looked to several observers as if Governor Landon, too, had suddenly decided to enter the campaign. Instead of delivering temperate generalities such as he has in most previous appearances, he made three major speeches, each devoted to a single issue, each making a strong bid for support in the region where it was delivered...
Among the students enrollest are Robert S. Colquhon of London, England, who is Assistant Engineer for the Grester London Highway Development Survey, now engaged in preparing a highway development plan for the Leaden region. During his career he has held a number of important positions as assistant to engineers and town planning officers in England...
Neutral military authorities, viewing the capture of Irun and San Sebastian, considered that Generalissimo Franco and General Mola were now in North Spain strategically just about where they had expected to be seven weeks ago. They had counted on commanding the Bay of Biscay from the first. When this region failed to join the Whites, the entire Mola-Franco plan for a quick southward thrust over the mountains to take Madrid was held up, since to attempt it would have been to risk attack from the rear. Thus this week there was a sense in which not only Premier Largo...