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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...least a quarter or perhaps one-half of those now enrolled in advanced university work and the substitution of those of more talent in their place," President Conant's long-awaited enlargement of his decrying of 'unemployment of university men' idea came yesterday in the form of a speech delivered here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Enlarges Ideas Limiting College Studies to Best Talent | 3/3/1938 | See Source »

...address was given at a meeting of the American Association of School Administrators. President Conant read a part of the same speech over the radio, station WJZ, at 8 o'clock last night. The entire speech will appear in a future issue of Harper's Magazine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Enlarges Ideas Limiting College Studies to Best Talent | 3/3/1938 | See Source »

...speech opened and closed on the vein of the Jeffersonian ideal, "to cull from every condition of our people the natural aristocracy of talent and virtue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Enlarges Ideas Limiting College Studies to Best Talent | 3/3/1938 | See Source »

...longer self-governing states but only sections of the revolutionary Moscow centre. I know Mr. Eden does not share this view! Stalin does and openly admits it." (See p. 17.) The Chancellor, having thus pinched the sorest point he could find, devoted a conciliatory part of his speech to announcing that: 1) Germany extends diplomatic recognition to the Empire of Manchukuo and assures Japan that the Fatherland wants no territory in Eastern Asia; 2) Germany has no territorial designs upon France or Spain and is "proud" of the 1934 pact by which Germany and Poland continue to respect each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Give Us Colonies!! | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...sovereignty of the Reich cannot lead to the loss of racial or political rights' . . . Just as England defends her interests the world over, the present day Germany will be able to defend her much more limited interests." "Colonies Demanded." But the big smash of the Chancellor's speech was Hitler's ominous roar that Germany has "no differences with England-except colonies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Give Us Colonies!! | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

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