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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They will travel with the Yale 150-pound crew which also intends to enter the regatta, and a Harvard-Yale finish may result...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "LIGHTWEIGHT CREW" LEAVES TOMORROW FOR HENLEY RACES | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

...merit in employers' plaints that the Wagner Act is cruelly prejudicial to them; 2) Congress should do something about it. As a first step, they reported the President was picking a commission to study British labor practice, bring back suggestions for watering down the Wagner Act. As a result of the report, C. I. O.'s John L. Lewis hastily informed Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins: "The C. I. 0. cannot sanction such an enterprise. ... It will oppose amendment or modification of the Wagner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: NLRB Triumphant | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

This fall of the Olympics away from the sportsmen to the control of the politicians and statesmen, which is the result of running them on too big a scale, has reached a serious stage. When so patient and sportsmanlike a figure as Bingham can no longer associate himself with the games, it is clear that something rots and smells in the state of affairs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FROM OLYMPIC HEIGHTS | 6/10/1938 | See Source »

...unique effort in this direction, both in concept and in result, was that a student who in the small hours of the morning before the exam, fortfied himself with rounds of whiskey and soda...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 6/10/1938 | See Source »

...result was that he entered the hall the gayest person there; and his confidence grew as he easily saw through the questions and remembered the answers and thought of sharp original comments. He wrote at great length and high speed, and finished a sure B. But the mark on the returned postcard was a large E. He protested to the section man, and demanded to see his book and its mistakes. "Your knowledge of the subject may have been perfect," said the instructor, "but what you wrote was three blue-books of rows of wavey lines...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 6/10/1938 | See Source »

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