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...Vagabond finds little in today's or tomorrow's academic assortments to tempt his roving fancy, but he happened to hear that M. Pierre de Lanux was to speak under the auspices of the Harvard Liberal Club tomorrow evening in Emerson F at 8 o'clock. His subject is "Our International Ethics," and it is the paradox of the title that first drew the Vagabond's attention to the lecture. For he has always been under the impression that anything was fair in love, war, or international politics and that perfectly respectable men who were nice to their mothers would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 11/12/1930 | See Source »

...assuming office, said Acting President Brett: "I don't suppose I shall at tempt to initiate any new situations under the circumstances. My main purpose will be to attempt to preserve the integrity of the college as far as State issues are concerned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Who's Whence | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

Evidently the Prohibition broil is getting too hot for the politicians and they figure it better to jump out of the frying pan into the fire of hard times. The full dinner pail is accordingly held forth to tempt the working man away from the overflowing beer bucket...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRAND OLD PROSPERITY | 10/25/1930 | See Source »

...strangled her and shot himself. Both principals give an excellent ac count of themselves: Arthur Sinclair, strong, decent, generous; Miss Hayes, frustrated, impetuous, affecting. Many a Gaelophile had an evening's entertainment just listening to a lot of good Irish ac cents. Happily, Miss Hayes did not at tempt the brogue. Arthur Sinclair (McDonnell), 47, is a Dubliner by birth, studied for the bar, abandoned the legal profession when he was 17 to join the famed Irish Players at the Abbey theatre. In 1911 he made his U. S. debut in The Rising of the Moon. He later appeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 13, 1930 | 10/13/1930 | See Source »

...sort of racketeer protection) of legal and charitable support in time of trouble, and of fraternal intercourse. There are some 60,000 Chinese in the U. S. Most of them belong to a Tong, of which there are about 15. Initiation fees, dues, give the Tongs big treasuries, tempt the leaders. Most Tong wars are caused by defection to the ranks of rival organizations, business rivalry, racketeering. Most notable Tongs are: On Leong, Hip Sing, Yan Wo, Tai Look, Tai Pang, Tong On. Over all western Tongs is the Peace Society, over all eastern Tongs, the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Irish Tong Overlord | 9/15/1930 | See Source »

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