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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hungary" published a long account of the project, and paid tribute to lectures delivered by Gaetano Salvemini, Lauro de Bois Lecturer on the History of Italian Civilization, and professors Francis O. Matthiessen, Wassily W. Leontieff, and Benjamin F. Wright...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hungary Bids for Seminar | 10/9/1947 | See Source »

...Gilbert '47, William Scudder '48, and Courtney Crandall '46 have come up with the script, lyrics, and music for a play about life in a small American town at the turn of the century. It became the theatrical committee's choice after a full week of deliberation, theatrical president W. Todd Parsons '48 said last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Authors of 'Speak for Yourself Team Up To Write Hasty Pudding's Centennial Show | 10/8/1947 | See Source »

Secretary of Commerce W. Averell Harriman and brother Roland decided not to deliver any more milk. Dropped because of rising production costs (materials and labor) : deliveries to 2,000-odd rural doorsteps from the Harrimans' commercial dairy in Arden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Oct. 6, 1947 | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

...have gone," said Vermont's Senator Ralph E. Flanders, machine-tool manufacturer, ex-president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and subcommittee chairman, "we have found that the margin of profit per dollar of sales has been very narrow." Robert A. Seidel, vice president of the W. T. Grant Co. (500 stores), testified that Grant's margin of profit in the first six months this year was only 3.1% of the consumer's dollar, compared to 6.4% in the same period last year. The committee also pinned down another fact: despite all the hullabaloo, the latest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Spiral Trail | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

Last Thursday afternoon a group of Harvard and Radcliffe students held an informal reception for Robert W. Kenney, the former Attorney General of California. As head of the California Democrats for Wallace, Mr. Kenney is working for the practical achievement of Mr. Wallace's position. The reception ended as a "bull session" on the prospects for progressive political activity in America, especially among students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

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