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...Association's two-day meeting will begin tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock in Agassiz Hall, Radcliffe, with the "Harvard Conference", sponsored jointly by the Harvard Teachers Association and the New England Association. Practical methods of teaching English composition, literature, grammar, and library use will be discussed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Matthiessen and Frost Will Speak at Teachers Meeting | 3/12/1936 | See Source »

...Emporia (Kans.), had read so much about the fun to be had in New Orleans at Mardi Gras that they stole two cars and held up a filling station to get there in time for last week's frolic. For robbing a second filling station on the outskirts of New Orleans and kidnapping its attendant, Funsters McCune & Rich were clapped into jail. Even so they could congratulate themselves on having taken part in a two-day pre-Lenten spree which, for sheer hell-raising, was unsurpassed since the fabulous days when the Louisville & Nashville Railroad used to send smiling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Hell before Lent | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

...this handful of types comes a quietly amusing little morality play, built on such domestic difficulties as Jack's disobeying his father, Bobby's cutting his wrist, Bonnie's almost getting smashed in an automobile wreck. During the picture's two-day action the family's love and unity seem on the verge of extinction in a dozen petty antagonisms which finally vanish when a real crisis arises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 2, 1936 | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

Last week hundreds of U. S. industrialists and the heads of their trade organizations assembled in Manhattan for what they were pleased to call the annual Congress of American Industry. Upper chamber in this congress is the potent National Association of Manufacturers, at whose two-day session the books arc closed for the business oratorical year. If an intelligent Tasmanian recluse had dropped into the Grand Ball Room of the Hotel Commodore where the NAM meetings were held last week he might have gathered that: 1) The U. S. is currently a subject nation under alien rule. 2) This rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Oratorical Year-End | 12/16/1935 | See Source »

Last week with two years of recovery behind them, 500 crack U. S. sales executives assembled in Manhattan for a two-day display of enthusiasm. Secretary of Commerce Roper soothed them. Major Lawrence Lee Bazley Angas, British propheteer, titillated them. President Thomas J. Watson of International Business Machines belabored them. President Allen Zoll of the International Association of Sales Executives told them: "I am . . . persuaded you will have a Democratic Administration for the next five years- whether you like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: New, New, New, New, New | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

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