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...audience of 300 in the New Lecture Hall, Bert Witt, Secretary of the American Student Union, read the results of the recent H.S.U. poll of 1800 undergraduates, 95 per cent of whom are against immediate American entry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poll Shows That Three-Quarters of Undergraduates Support Isolationism | 11/11/1939 | See Source »

...Harvard Student Union will give a free showing of the moving picture "Grande Illusion" in the New Lecture Hall on Friday afternoon and will follow this up with an announcement of the results of its peace poll which has been conducted throughout the week. Bert Witt, secretary of the American Student Union, will also give a short speech, complimenting the Union on its stand in the crisis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pacifists Plan to Display Feelings in Rallies Fixed for Armistice Weekend | 11/9/1939 | See Source »

...Angeles police, on mass guard in the Hollywood area, nabbed a bearded, slender runaway just after a robbery was reported. In his car they found a 2 by 4 bludgeon, at his home shoes which fitted the cast of a footprint near where Delia Bogard was felled. De Witt Clinton Cook, 20, a marauding printer who had learned the fine points of robbery at an Iowa reform school, confessed that he killed Anya Sosoyeva, struck down Delia Bogard, yielded to "an uncontrollable impulse" and raped Myrtle Wagner after he had looted her employer's home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Crime | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...Excelsior, Minnesota; Robert G. Urquhart '40, of Detroit, Michigan; John C. Wahlke '39, of Cincinnati, Ohio; Richard C. Webster Jr. '40, of Baltimore; Richard H. Weller '40, of Upper Darby, Pennsylvania; Malcolm R. Wilkey '40, of Madisonville, Kentucky; Grant W. Wiprud '41 of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; William H. Witt '41, of Seattle, Washington; Morton G. Wurtele '40, of Harrodsburg, Kentucky; Joseph A. Wyant '40, of Atlanta, Georgia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Awarding of 107 Scholarships Is Announced | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...revolution changed from a matter of singing in the streets to a grim and hopeless siege, a subtle change came over them. Mr. Witt, who stayed in his shaded study, ate oranges, made wise remarks to the English consul and watched the shells exploding in the blue waters of the bay, grew mysteriously old, suspicious, weary. Milagritos, who prepared bandages, went with the rebel fleet on its biggest battle, seemed to grow younger, prettier, less communicative. When Milagritos' cousin was sentenced to be shot, Mr. Witt raced to save him, although he had always been mildly disturbed by Milagritos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spanish Satire | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

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