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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pacifist demonstration Monday, and has announced that many more will follow. He also advocated the expulsion of the leaders in he disturbance, and capped off the pogram with the confiscation of an issue of the Advance, undergraduate publication, which contained an account of the pacifist proceedings. This step, he explained was due rather to the fact that the issue was unauthorized than to the nature of its contents. While all this was taking place, members of the board of The Campus, another student paper, suspended by the Board of Higher Education because of an allegedly obscene issue, were awaiting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOUND AND FURY | 6/2/1933 | See Source »

Most termite colonies are divided into five castes, apparently determined in the egg. Topping the social scale are the king & queen. They have wings and reproduce. Next come two wingless courtier castes, also fertile, which may step into the reproductive breach if king or queen should die. To the termite proletariat belong the pinheaded, speck-brained workers which do all the damage (see cut, left), the soldiers big of head & jaws. More potent than the fighter shown (cut, right) is a type with retort-shaped head from which it squirts a pungent secretion on its enemies, chiefly ants. These...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Termites | 5/29/1933 | See Source »

Speeding to the inn came Boykin Cabell Wright, Bankster Harriman's son-in-law who asked to be left alone with the old man. Since Harriman was out on bail, the police had no jurisdiction over him. They withdrew. Then Harriman asked Wright to step out too while he dressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Mr. Harriman Seeks Rest | 5/29/1933 | See Source »

...tuition. Next to Boston Latin School it is the oldest free secondary school in the U. S. Ever since the days of Founder John Eliot, apostle to the Indians, for headmasters Roxbury Latin School has always picked New Englanders. Last week the Roxbury trustees took the breathless step of electing a Westerner to succeed their late Headmaster Daniel Varney Thompson. They chose George Norton Northrop, 52, Wisconsin-born English teacher, onetime headmaster of Manhattan's Brearley School, and headmaster of Chicago's comparatively upstart Latin School (founded 1888) until he resigned last February because of financial troubles (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Chicago to Roxbury | 5/29/1933 | See Source »

When Pennsylvania's U. S. Representative Charles Isaiah Faddis came home to his Washington apartment he opened the door on a young burglar. The burglar pointed a pistol at Representative Faddis, told him in a rich Southern accent to put up his hands. Faddis took one step forward, swung his fist against the burglar's jaw, knocking him down, jarring him loose from his pistol. Mr. Faddis then called police who took the young man, one Clarence Roberts, 17, to the hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 22, 1933 | 5/22/1933 | See Source »

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