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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...annoyed by scientific jargon. Last week he addressed the conference on chemical education during the society's spring meeting at Dallas. Far from displaying stage fright or obsequiousness, Critic Friedenberg took these elder bulls of science sternly by the horns, warned them that they had better mend their talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Prose v. Jargon | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Harvard's legendary teacher of rhetoric, plans no special observance on his anniversary, just a few friends in for the evening to talk. He wants no fuss over his birthday, preferring to wait until his 80th...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Copey 78 Today | 4/27/1938 | See Source »

...furiously distributing literature. Those who are truly representative of Harvard will go sincerely and soberly to Sanders Theatre, whether Quaker or R.O.T.C. officer, to see what hope remains of preserving peace. The others are advised to take the subway to Boston Common, where an indulgent democracy will let them talk to their heart's content...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SANDERS AT ELEVEN | 4/27/1938 | See Source »

Prince of Peace. "I had hoped to be able to defer this talk until next week because, as we all know, this is Holy Week. In this decision I have been strengthened by the thought that by speaking tonight there may be greater peace of mind and that the hope of Easter may be more real at firesides everywhere, and that it is not inappropriate to encourage peace when so many of us are thinking of the Prince of Peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Chat | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

...black Depression year of 1932 a committee of railroad men headed by Baltimore & Ohio's fatherly Daniel Willard asked the 21 railroad unions to accept a voluntary pay cut. After three weeks' talk, the unions agreed to a 10% cut. Three years later, with recovery thundering down the tracks, employes' pay was restored to the 1932 level; last year it was raised another 7½%. Last week, facing a crisis considerably worse than 1932, the railroads again asked the 21 unions to accept a pay cut. Snapped Chairman George Harrison of the Railway Labor Executives Association...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Too Much Debt | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

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