Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...teaching of pro-Allied interpretations of the war will not help. If America is to stay calm in the face of foreign fire, it would do well to go on teaching both sides of the question as it has in the past. Contrary to some belief, there still are two sides...
...when Recession set in, Nancy had collected over $7,000. Then William Edmund Scripps, president of the Detroit News Corporation, decided to take a hand. He pointed out that with $1,000 a month in donations it would still take eight more years to raise enough. "Make them be business-like," he told his domestic columnist. Said Nancy: "They won't be businesslike. It's not that kind of a column." Nevertheless, she asked them to stop-and money still came...
...signed his name "Angus" suggested light-weight chimes (which cost less) instead of heavy, cast bells. One who called himself "Banker" urged Nancy to hasten, lest inflation raise the cost of the tower. Alarmed, Nancy's donors redoubled their efforts. By last month she had raised $27,700, still needed around $20,000 more. One morning "Banker" came in person to her office, offered to lend her the rest without interest...
...Citadels of Snobbery" Rufus W. Mathewson, Jr. '41, attacks the club system as a Harvard evil which appears to be on the wane but which still plays a large role in certain limited sectors of Harvard undergraduate life...
...this plan is put into effect, it will nullify the protection of the "carry" legislation. The ships would be transferred to a country completely under U. S. domination, and utterly unable to defend them in war zones, while the vessels would still be owned by U. S. corporations. Change of registry would be not only a capitulation to war profiteers, but an unneutral act with grave possibilities of U.S. involvement...