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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their sections, can give no air-tight proof of fact. They can only refer vaguely to the "common sense" of their instructors. True, the common sense of a great many staffs is extremely good, but other courses have failed utterly to bring any order or continuity out of the various theories and marking systems of their section...
...years a blustering impresario named Guy Golterman pushed and cranked at various makeshift means to get St. Louis grand opera going. Sometimes the singers he promised didn't show up; sometimes the operas he sold tickets for didn't get performed. His hopeful backers nearly always lost their operatic shirts. Two years ago they got tired and quit...
...Manhattan organization called "the Committee for Christian Action" has compiled "Christian Indexes," now in circulation, which list "Christian" merchants in various neighborhoods. Reads one Index: "Christ Himself sponsored this little leaflet for your protection." Upon non-Christian shops, anti-Semitic stickers appear: BY BUYING HERE YOU HELP THE COMMUNISM (see cut). (Turned upside down, the head on the sticker resembles a plug-ugly "Red" in a Russian...
...kind of international banker who, during crises, will spend a day at transatlantic telephoning, Bill Wasserman since the first of the year has traveled 18,000 miles, poking his head into various high places in search of useful information. At No. 10 Downing Street, London, in the office of Neville Chamberlain's economic adviser, Sir Horace Wilson, Banker Wasserman engaged in a conversation that last week proved highly interesting to the U. S. According to Mr. Wasserman, Sir Horace told him that at the outbreak of war the British Government would take over all the U. S. securities held...
...Hasty Pudding and Pi Eta Club shows are the parlor of Harvard dramatic entertainment, the various House plays are certainly the kitchen sink. In comparison, the House plays are poorly mounted, poorly drilled, and poorly east. But therein lies their beauty, the appeal of the dramatic ugly duckling. Somehow the joy of knowing the actors personally, and of watching them blow their lines makes for entertainment which a more professional show cannot offer...