Word: turnings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bill to bar from Federal pay rolls all members of all organizations affiliated in any degree with the widely affiliated Communist Party (or with any other outfit which would overthrow the U. S. Government). Carried to its logical extreme in public and private employment, this form of retribution would turn up millions of witches in the besplattered League alone. A. L. P. D. has some 20,000 active members, claims 7,500,000 more through unions and assorted organizations whose leaders joined the League as a gesture against Fascism, toward peace, to help unionize grocery stores, boycott Germany, participate...
...Eric Phipps was educated at esthetic King's College, Cambridge. At 24 he passed the competitive examinations for the Diplomatic Corps, and was assigned in turn to posts in Paris, Constantinople, Rome, Paris again, Petrograd, Madrid, Paris again, London, Brussels, Paris again, and Vienna. In 1933, the year Hitler came to power, he was appointed Ambassador in Berlin. There he spent four incredibly difficult years, so distinguished himself in crisis after crisis that the Nazis, smarting under his smartness, were glad to hear of his transfer back to Paris (as Ambassador) in February 1937. And the French were delighted...
...tutorial systems; they result in a closer and more complete relation between teacher and pupil. Where once the impersonal lecture system flourished unconditionally, today its effects have been tempered by this element of personality. And this element is rapidly becoming a necessity if Harvard is to continue to turn out its share of leaders...
...when they start at Dunster on the 11th, you'll really hear some good jazz. "Uncle" Bill Whitcraft on piano, Johnny Harlow (trumpet), Hal Jacobs on clarinet, George Olson on drums, and Mike Siegel on tenor sax manage to turn out some solos that are good enough for anybody's wing. Stan does the sweet vocals, and odes a good imitation of the Jack Leonard style of singing. Fem vocalist Dorothy Sinatra, sister of Harry James'vocalist, does even better...
...points out that full professors inevitably move into advanced instruction and turn "a good share of undergraduate teaching over to younger men...whose value to the university is enhanced as their knowledge and experience increase...