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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This economy, which will amount to several thousand dollars a year, may help save the threatened minor sports which are being considered this week by financial officers of the College...
...only eloquence is a flat, staccato statement of what he considers to be fact. On the walls of his office hang twelve portraits of Andrew Jackson. The portraits are appropriate, for Emil Hurja went to Washington to apply modern business methods to political patronage. To distribute several hundred thousand jobs where they would do the most good for the Party, he established a model system of "political clearance." Instead of simply allotting jobs at the request of Congressmen, all applicants were made to bring endorsements from local Democratic leaders. These were filed in triplicate according to the name...
...deep fastness of Eastern Asia, along nebulous frontiers supposed to divide Soviet power from the forces of Empire, battle was joined as a thousand Mongol rifles cracked and light Japanese tanks whirled into action. The fighting last week came as a grim climax. Preludes have been more than 100 frontier "incidents" as the Japanese Empire and its vassals steadily encroached toward the Soviet Union. Russia has been afraid to fight back, so Japan has found year after year. Finally and historically, Russia and her vassals began to fight back in earnest last week. This outburst of undeclared...
This plan, looking forward to the mutual exchange of a thousand selected leaders of the younger generation, ought to be closely watched. It may, in the next year, prove to be a great chance for many Harvard undergraduates...
Four-fifths of the thousand-odd votes cast favored one of the Republican candidates. Colonel Frank Knox is the fourth in the list of preferences, and the well-known Chicago publisher is closely followed by Arthur Vandenberg, Senator from Michigan...