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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Acting as official spokesman for the student body, last Wednesday evening the Student Council passed a resolution in favor of repeal, and asked for a standardization and revision of the old law. This step, timed to greet Mr. Conant upon his return, completes the picture of undergraduate opposition. The Student Council did not flare up in anger. Its decision was based upon a serious weighing of the problem and an observation of the new rule in use during the past month...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHO EVIL THINKS | 11/3/1936 | See Source »

...should be excluded from the drafting of a new Locarno Pact by Britain, Italy, France and Germany only. Belgium, which has just resumed her historic Neutrality, would also be left out; France would be virtually detached from her alliance with Russia; and the "New Locarno" would be a great step toward setting up the hierarchy envisioned by Il Duce's Four Power Pact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Dictators' Five Points | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

...decency's name the U. S. cinema should be regulated, some liberals have squirmed because the strict regulation which now exists was devised by Roman Catholics, is now in the Catholic hands of Motion Picture Production Code Administrator Joseph I. ("Joe") Breen. Last week was announced a step, obviously the work of astute Will H. Hays, Presbyterian Elder, which may make U. S. Protestants feel better about the part their churches play in purifying the nation's pictures. The most potent executive of the Y. M. C. A., General Secretary Francis Stuart Harmon, 41, turned in his resignation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Harmon to Hollywood | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

...shipping companies sought to rid them selves of union interference and return to the old "free for all" system. And since neither side has good temper enough to arbitrate, with Secretary Perkins pointing an accusing finger at the employers as the prime offenders, the seamen have taken the final step of calling out a strike...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DOWN TO THE SEA | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

...often been the case in the past, parking regulations are again bearing witness to that unnamed but well-defined law of nature which keeps Harvard students always one step ahead of the University powers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AUTHORITIES TRAILING IN RACE WITH AUTO VIOLATORS | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

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