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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...development. In 1938, the multiplication and strengthening of these connections is still one of the most significant features of Harvard's expansion. But although the game is yet in play, Harvard can look with satisfaction upon the large score already rolled up. Today, it draws its students from every section, every state of the nation. It has gone far in combatting regional misconceptions and prejudices. Each year, it does a little more to erase the stamp of sectionalism, to substitute the much prouder national seal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESIDENT CONANT ON NATIONAL UNIVERSITY | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

...business trip has kept me pretty constantly on the go during the past two months and interfered with my cover-to-cover reading. Nevertheless let me add my congratulations to the many I am sure you must have received on the new section Government Week under business & finance. At last I have something to turn to that will keep me posted about what's being done to us in Washington. Thanks, TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 25, 1938 | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

Vice President Garner, who was amusing himself by trying to find a suitable Easter new hat (see cut), was rumored to disapprove and Senator Pat Harrison was noncommittal. Nonetheless, Congress likes to spend money, particularly in election years and the program was shrewdly divided so that every State and section could be sure of a fat share. In the last depression Congress habitually gave the President lump sums to spend as he wished. Best guess last week was that Congress would indeed give the President what he wanted but this time with more specific instructions as to precisely where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Message | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

Citing the above instances and others last week, Great Exile Leon Trotsky dispatched a letter to the juridical section of the League of Nations Secretariat charging that a centralized "mafia" of Soviet terrorists, like the famed Sicilian terrorist society, is now operating in Europe, killing and kidnapping opponents of the Stalinist regime. Trotsky demanded that a League tribunal be set up for investigation of these terroristic activities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Stalin's Mafia | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

Fortunately, "The Women," presented by Max Gordon at the Colonial, is not the cross-section of American womanhood that many claim it to be. It is good, not particularly clean, comedy. Embracing a cast of forty women and presenting the thesis that the fair sex has just one thing on its mind, the play tries more to amuse than convince...

Author: By C. L. B., | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 4/22/1938 | See Source »

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