Word: various
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chief rival to Ahmed is Ali, who has two formidable assets: he commands the Sana garrison and is close to the Imamate's treasury, in the cellar under Yahya's palace. Brother Abdullah, Yahya's roving ambassador to various foreign posts (now in London), is too remote from Yemen to be a strong contender for the couch. Brother Hussein is amiable and popular, but used to be jailed now & then by his father for drinking bouts, is now in retirement on a farm. The eighth son, Ibrahim, fled from Yemen to British Aden a year ago after...
...hundred and seventy students from 65 different foreign countries are now attending the University and its various graduate schools. Represented most frequently among these countries are Canada, who boasts an enrollment of 123 students, China, India, England, France, Mexico, the Phillipines, and Germany, who has sent...
...only in a university with many of the social advantages of a small college." If the University were to keep on at its jam-packed 12,000 man level, the new lecture halls, dormitories, and laboratories that would soon be needed would involve immense capital expenditures. And all the various faculties would have to be enlarged, teaching methods in some of the graduate schools might even have to be revised. So a return to the size for which it was built seems about the only course left for the University to take-but not until veterans are no longer...
Critical professorial eyes, including those of John M. Gaus, professor of Government, will be turned on federal agricultural activities this week as a committee under Herbert Hoover investigates various federal executive branches...
...panic had various causes: the new British tax (TIME, Aug. 18), a big "Boo!" from Congressman J. Parnell Thomas-Red-hunting committee-and a 15% drop in box office. One reason so few pictures were being made was because Hollywood was not sure of the kind of pictures to make, except that they had to be cheaper. And with the box-office drop-which cut down the long wartime runs of pictures-there had to be more of them, probably...