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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Britain and France had just reduced their China garrisons. Japan was fulminating against the U. S. in its role of watchdog. The conferees went off to Manila with their boss's judgment (coinciding with their own): if Japan takes the present war as an occasion to move in on French and British interests, the U. S. must do everything short of war to resist. If you live in a firetrap, Nelson Johnson might say, and the apartment of the two people across the hall catches fire, you don't go on reading that romantic novel; you get busy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Excellency in a Ricksha | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Last week, after three games with the Bruins, Owner-Player Shore realized that his dual role was too much to handle, asked to be spared from the Boston lineup. The Bruins consented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boston's Shore | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...departure from its traditionally inactive role as the academic honor society the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa yesterday voted to issue a call to all student organizations urging them to join in the formation of a committee to preserve academic freedom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phi Beta Kappa Issues Call for Committee on Academic Freedom | 12/9/1939 | See Source »

Hunt Hamill '40, undertakes the leading male role, of Ronnie, a happy-go-lucky member of cafe society. Playing opposite him is Miss Reta Hurley, a graduate of the Bishop Lee School, who will portray a New York glamor girl. Leonard Kent '43, as the stolid and dependable Henry, Guy Clements '40, and Miss Agnes Love, Radcliffe '34, fill the remaining important parts. Henry Urrows '38 directs the Dramatic Club's latest production...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dramatic Club Will Produce Latest Play December 14 to 16 | 12/6/1939 | See Source »

Before the appointment of an active placement officer the University maintained a bureau of placement whose role was merely to centralize information on teachers who registered with it, and to send specific requests from outside institutions to the chairmen of the proper departments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Russell Appointed as Placement Assistant to President Conant | 12/5/1939 | See Source »

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