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Because the U. S. dollar has been cut 40% while the Swiss franc has not, $2,000,000 given by John D. Rockefeller Jr. to build the League library has shrunk in Swiss purchasing power to $1,200,000. Last week Leaguophiles wailed, "If Mr. Rockefeller does not make up the difference, our library really may never be finished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: Elephant White | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

Three-more questionnaires were distributed during the Freshman year and the final one this week. The number of students at Harvard taking the tests has shrunk from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE ADAPTATION IS SUBJECT OF NEW TESTS | 1/22/1936 | See Source »

...misunderstood. His suggestion that Big Business "gang up" was interpreted as a bald plan to gang Franklin D. Roosevelt (TIME, Dec. 2). Though his sentiments were personal, the name Hutton has been linked to General Foods since he became chairman in 1923 and as a goodwill asset has lately shrunk in value...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Reshuffle | 12/23/1935 | See Source »

While the Freshman Class has shrunk in numbers this year, it is a long time since any class had a John C. Jones, 3rd who is 6 feet, 8 inches tall and weighs 225 pounds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quality, Not Quantity | 9/21/1935 | See Source »

...Mussolini. If Queen Wilhelmina would let members of his N. S. B. wear distinctive "political shirts," Engineer Mussert has said that they would be not brown but black. He talks about installing in the Netherlands a version of Il Duce's Corporative State with buxom Queen Wilhelmina shrunk in political size to match peewee Victor Emanuel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: N. S. B. | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

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