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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That most colorful of Spanish capitalists, illiterate Juan March, onetime tobacco smuggler, chief civilian backer of General Franco's armies, was back in Gibraltar last week after a hurried trip to impoverished Italy with the Duke of Alba in search of more aid. Loudly he reassured nervous Rightist supporters with the statement that he had authorized General Franco to spend $1,500,000,000 "subscribed abroad," by whom Juan March would...
...idle to speculate, as the men of the conference did, as to the causes of what they like to call as "unwarranted exodus" on the part of college graduates in search of jobs. This movement is not caused by "wanderlust," "higher pay elsewhere," "the traditional conservatism of New England," or other irrelevant facts. The crux of the situation is that no matter how large a place New England naturally occupies in our sentiments and affections, it is only a very small part of the industrial and intellectual life of the country...
Continuing his search for a winning pitcher to use this weekend when the Varsity faces Penn, Columbia, Princeton, and Brown in three days Coach Fred Mitchell was undecided last night between Lefty Dick Walsh and Dave Shean for the starting role this afternoon...
...loss of large portions of grey and white matter without serious physical impairment has led Dr. Alford to search for a comparatively small "core of intelligence" in the brain. He found it, he told the Association last week, in "a quite small area, lying posteriorly near the base of the brain." In right-handed individuals this core is located in the left half of the brain; in left-handed ones, in the right hemisphere. Said Dr. Alford: "This area is responsible, when injured, for clouding, confusion and dementia. No other part of the brain, when injured, produces similar impairment...
...ROAD: IN SEARCH OF AMERICA-Nathan Asch-Norton...