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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speakers practically unknown to their classmates, and the general tone that of a stilted secondary school valedictory address. The situation this year is peculiarly grim. The undergraduate chosen from the competition to deliver the annual address is unable to be at the exercises leaving the Commencement officials to search about for a budding Demosthenes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENCEMENT SPEAKERS | 6/5/1936 | See Source »

...Klux Klan tradition, have emigrated to Detroit in search of unskilled factory employment. To uphold "Protestantism, Americanism and Womanhood" and, as a sideline, to establish a mutual assistance group to find members jobs, a number of them founded the Black Legion in 1933. The organization burgeoned. No man could apply for membership, but if sponsored by friends, was enticed to a meeting. There, with a revolver at his heart, he was permitted to declare his willingness to "be torn limb from limb and scattered to the carrion" if he betrayed a word of society secrets. After swearing to support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Black Legion | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

...disarmed his Heim-wehr as the Government is insisting he do, but he had removed every rifle from his castle knowing that if Chancellor von Schuschnigg should feel uppity enough to attempt to disarm the Heimwehr by force, Waxenberg Castle would be the first place he would search...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Futsch Putsch | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

...females seem to have no auditory organ whatever. It is possible, however, that as snakes perceive the vibrations of sound with their tongues, the female cicada may feel the shrill song of the male with her antennae or some other organ. To clarify this situation a program of re-search was last week reported to be on foot at the University of Maryland. The call of the male will be transmitted by microphone to a loudspeaker in another room. The female will be placed in front of the loudspeaker, while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Brood X | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

Merely a cursory examination of the roster, however, produces certain distinct impressions. The whole world, eighteen countries in all, including the United States, is representated, a fact which itself indicates how great a demonstration Harvard will make on this occasion. Brains and the patience to apply them to the search for truth are monopolized by no country or race. Little Switzerland will receive five degrees, half as many as Germany; Denmark gets two as does Japan; the United States leads with fourteen followed by England with twelve. All fields of human knowledge are covered, at least indirectly. Science is heavily...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 5/29/1936 | See Source »

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