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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert Moses, Ph.D., New York City's scholarly Park Commissioner, will be the Golden Lecturer this spring, it was announced by the University yesterday. He will speak on April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROBERT MOSES IS CHOSEN AS 1939 GODKIN LECTURER | 3/3/1939 | See Source »

Their methods are spectacular and press-conscious. The strategy is to get prominent men to speak on subjects which they conceive to be related to their cause, but it is impossible o discern any cause behind their eccentric gyrations. The Student Union supports a plan to bring Jewish student refugees to Harvard, and some of the Independents crack back with a plan, however commendable, to bring South American students here, as if to show that the Union has no monopoly on humanitarianism and the interests of democracy. The implication is that their policy derives from a reaction against that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INDEPENDENT INERTIA | 3/2/1939 | See Source »

Arthur T. Lyman '16 will address tomorrow night the annual dinner of these Freshmen who have done volunteer work for Phillips Brooks House during the past months. Lyman, State Commissioner of Correction, will speak on subjects allied with the social service work of the Freshmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '42 Brooks House Volunteers Hold Annual Union Dinner | 2/28/1939 | See Source »

...Clarence True Wilson, 66, famed Prohibitionist, longtime (1910-36) general secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals; of uremic poisoning, complicated by a heart attack; in Portland, Ore. As leader of the U. S. Prohibition forces, ruddy-faced, goateed Prohibitor Wilson used to stump every State, speak before societies and clubs, at country fairs, on street corners and on emptied beer barrels. Of late he had devoted himself to his hobbies-simplified spelling, cattle breeding, a theory that John Wilkes Booth escaped his pursuers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 27, 1939 | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

Before the end of his starling campaign on March 7 Kerins will speak at four or five rallies a night during this week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRESIDE CHAT WILL END KERINS' CAMPAIGN | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

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