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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Insofar as possible," he stated, "we will try to establish a cross-section of the college on future Boards. Too long has the Lampoon rated good fellowship above literary ability...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RICHARDSON HEADS NEW LAMPY BOARD | 12/7/1939 | See Source »

...sisters in the Big Three when it complains of the "intellectual inertia of the Street," a social organization which has no share in its academic program. But, the author explains, there is no one there to stimulate "an intellectual atmosphere" since it lacks the cross section of life and the "friction of minds" at Harvard and Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tiger Club System Is Responsible for "Intellectual Inertia," Declares Article | 12/7/1939 | See Source »

...section of Manhattan almost exclusively populated by Jews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Musical in Manhattan: Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Intricacies. The lank man in the White House whom a large section of the press, North and South and in England, referred to as a "gorilla" proved himself through four years of heartbreaking war to be one of the ablest and most subtle statesmen in history. Step by step, chapter & verse, Carl Sandburg sets him forth as indeed the merciful, mystic and benign being of the monuments, but as also-and with profound consistency-a hard, circumspect, far-seeing politician and manager of men. Lincoln's speeches and writings were the work of a remarkably pure human intellect, always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Your Obt. Servt. | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...witch-hunt is in full swing, with that eminent Finnish patriot, Martin Dies, leading the pack. American radicalism is neither a coherent philosophy nor a unified political movement. There is not even a united front. Communists and Socialists, Lovestoneites and Trotskyites are engaged in endless guerilla warfare. Because one section of the radical movement supports Stalin, the whole liberal and radical melange is threatened by a tidal wave of reaction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SINS OF THEIR FATHERS | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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