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Dates: during 1930-1939
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CAMBRIDGE, Dec. 14 (UP)-At a Massachusetts Institute of Technology meeting which was almost without incident, Communist Earl Browder told a capacity audience today that by a modern miracle the League of Nations " has risen from the tomb and speaks with a boldness and vigor it never had when alive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROWDER'S SPEECH CAUSES NO STIR IN AUDIENCE AT TECH | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

...Winterset" is Anderson at his best, although, of course, it cannot rightly be said that Manager Alan Gray Holmes' production is "Winterset" at its best. But even if there is some lack of understanding and subtlety, this is more than compensated for by sincerity and vigor, and at all times the play is entertaining and enjoyable. Vola Blakely is a convincing and wistfully tragic Miriamme, and she is notable for never falling out of part as do most of the others at one time or another. William Shea's Mio is versatile and effective--would be more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 12/13/1939 | See Source »

...England's national sovereignty and empire. On December 5, last Tuesday, Lord Halifax rose in Commons to quash their proposals: "We only court disaster if we forget that no paper plan will endure that does not freely spring from the will of the peoples that alone can give it vigor and life; and international, like our own national, institutions must be very securely and deeply anchored on reality." It is startlingly evident that Lord Halifax feels he is better qualified to interpret the "will of the peoples" than those who propose world federation. As for the "reality" he prizes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNION WHEN? | 12/8/1939 | See Source »

...something ultimate to which everything else should be subordinated and directed cannot fail to harm the true and lasting prosperity of nations," read the Encyclical. Again, the Pontiff wrote that the totalitarian system of government was an idea which "robs the law of nations of its foundation and vigor, leads to violation of others' rights and impedes agreement and peaceful intercourse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: No Dove | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...ripping vigor and angularity of this type of movement which removes Roussel somewhat from the spirit of the traditional French school. His ruggedness does not fit in with the extreme subtlety and delicacy of composers like Debussy. Ravel, and even Honegger. The difference in style is not surprising when one considers Russell's musical background. Though he spent much of his life in Paris, he was not a member of the Conservatoire, where almost all French musicians of the first rank have received their training. He was drawn farther away from traditional lines by the exotic influence of the music...

Author: By L. C. Holvik, | Title: The Music Box | 10/24/1939 | See Source »

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