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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next exhibition in the Treasure Room of Widener Library will consist of valuable old documents pertaining to the early history of Harvard College and the colonies, and will include the earliest known views of the College and interesting text books in manuscript. The exhibits are now in preparation and will be ready Monday...
...review of this work would be incomplete without mention of the numerous maps and photographs which supplement the text. Probably the best of these is the reproduction of a rare Debucourt engraving of the battle at Rodriguez canal. Lengthy annotation and bibliography give further notice that Mr. James is no man to leave a good work unburnished. This present volume carries Jackson through his border-captain days up to 1821. A second and concluding volume is in preparation...
...natural breaks or pauses in the story, like asides in a play. The recommended procedure is to read each footnote as its asterisk, dagger or double asterisk appears. Any able reading eye should then be able to find its way back to the point of digression in the main text. Less nimble eyes can be aided by staking out the point of digression with forefinger or pencil. Readers too engrossed by the main discourse to break off are advised to reverse this process. Let them pounce on the asterisk with finger or pencil, finish the story, then return and clean...
...arrested for dis orders. And still the strike spread. General Johnson headed into the vicinity of this disturbance last week when he went to Harrisburg to deliver an NRA "pep" speech. Taking Pennsylvania's labor troubles and the stiff-necked anti- union attitude of mine owners as his text, he cried: "I don't see why blood should flow and men refuse to talk to one another when the whole world is trying to get to gether. You can't get together with a man by throwing stones at him. I'd talk to the Devil...
...statesmen exchanged the draft text of an Austro-Hungarian-Italian trade treaty which may prove of utmost impor tance. It is no secret that Il Duce opposes Adolf Hitler's efforts to draw Austria into union with Germany-which would mean that Italy would face on her northern frontier not puny Austria but the potent German Reich. According to the draft text exchanged in Rome last week Italy is ready to agree to increase her purchases from Austria and Hungary and, over a period of years, to buy from them more than they sell...