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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although a serious attempt will be made to bring properly qualified Undergraduates to the University to spend a year as members of the Senior chase, meet of the scholars will be graduates with a special said of interest. Already Latin-Americans have signified interest in Harvard's courses in Medicine, Archaeology, Economics, Anthropology, History and Government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pan-American Scholarship Plan Gets Endorsement by Roosevelt | 2/14/1939 | See Source »

...enemies." But last week Rena let the cat out of the bag. Said she: "Tom has talked to me about a divorce. He can't divorce me now. ... I can't understand. . . . What is there left for me? . . . We're old. I want to spend the remaining years with Tom Mooney ... the old Tom Mooney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 13, 1939 | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...Town Visitors: Don't imagine your friends want to spend all night helping raise hell; they were probably out late the night before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Modern Manners | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...implied criticism of the New Deal was enough to arouse Solicitor General Robert Houghwout Jackson. An ex officio member of the House of Delegates, he advised his colleagues: "Let's not spend our time tilting against windmills. . . The fact is, the record of administrative tribunals is slightly better than that of the lower courts, where appeals were made. Federal agencies won 64% of their cases, while lower courts were sustained in only 54% of the cases appealed, over a ten-year period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Lawyers' Advice | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...Washington, Secretary Woodring retorted that on Governor Aiken's head would lie full blame for blocking the Federal flood control program in Vermont. Franklin Roosevelt sniffed that Governor Aiken would not have to spend his $67,500 fighting fund: if he would rather have States' rights than Federal flood control, all right, the War Department would scratch Vermont off its list, pour its dollars and its dams into other States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VERMONT: A Dam Site | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

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