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Running off its peace meeting with dignity and decorum that belie the name of "strike", the Student Union's Peace Committee can at last take credit for raising Harvard pacifistic celebrations to the level of reason and respectability. An attitude of calm and mature deliberation held sway in Sanders Theatre yesterday which marks a decided improvement over the late reign of terror on Widener's battle-scarred steps and will inevitably do more real good for the cause of peace. Professional patriots like the Legion cannot attack the gathering at Sanders as they handled rebellious Chicago school children, or obfuscate...
...March issue of The American Spectator reveals the sinister connection between your company and J. P. Morgan & Co. and how your radio program is under the sway of those fascists, Remington Rand...
...four birthday balls President Roosevelt had special interest. One was held in Georgia Hall, at Warm Springs Foundation, mainspring of the President's favorite charity. Another was held at Coral Gables, Fla. where Tycoon Henry L. Doherty, organizer of the birthday ball system, personally held sway. The third was a syndicate of birthday balls in Washington, to which 18,000 $2.50 tickets were sold entitling the bearers to visit balls at all or any of six hotels, to travel from ball to ball by free bus. Among the travelers were Guy Lombardo & orchestra, Cinemactress Ginger Rogers (who, though...
...Europe's perennial Men of the Years, Stanley Baldwin, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Kamal Ataturk and Dr. Eduard Benes held undiminished sway. The outstanding exhibition of the century in French political tight-rope walking was given in 1935 but as the year entered its last hours the fate of Premier Pierre Laval, 1931'S Man of the Year, continued to tiptoe (see p. 18). In Asia practical control of North China was obtained by Japan in 1935 so adroitly and inconspicuously that it was a major Japanese triumph to have avoided producing...
...Province of Alberta in Canada a political party . . . promised $25 a month to every worthy citizen. ... If there is any place on the American continent where the old conservative educational ideals hold full sway, it is the Province of Alberta. There they are innocent of 'modern' educational methods. They are guiltless of progressive education. They center their attention upon reading, writing and arithmetic. Nevertheless the citizens of Alberta voted to pay themselves $25 a month...