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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...schoolteacher, lawyer. Ashurst, in the Senate, opposed conscription. McFarland, in Arizona, was for it. But McFarland made a bigger issue out of the Senator's long absences from the State. For the past ten years Ashurst has scarcely stirred from Washington. This year he did not even bother to go back and campaign in the primary. Few, least of all Ashurst, thought this indifference would make any difference. But last week, when the primary poll was counted, the curtain was rung down on the long Senatorial career of Henry Fountain Ashurst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Ashurst Out | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

...continual bother of solicitation by many local charities is avoided by the Council's agreement with these organizations that they will accept donations from it and forego personal convassing. These donations are made possible by students' contributions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENT COUNCIL REPRESENTS UNDERGRADUATE OPINION | 9/5/1940 | See Source »

...second in popular choice, ahead of Taft and Vandenberg, and still growing; at least 50,000 volunteer Willkie workers were in the field, handing out Willkie buttons, getting signatures on petitions-usually with the slightly embarrassed air of people who believe in their cause but do not want to bother anybody; over 475,000 pieces of Willkie campaign literature had been mailed from the Manhattan Volunteer Mailing Committee; Wendell Willkie had received 3,000 requests to speak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGNS: The Story of Wendell Willkie | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

...bother about the silk hat, but under no circumstances get caught with your baton down," is the advice to his corps of assistants of Paul M. Hollister '13, Marshal for Harvard Day at the World's Fair tomorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WORLD'S FAIR DAY MARSHAL STRESSES IMPORT OF BATON | 5/18/1940 | See Source »

...lecture system as we know it has been abolished. In its place are five hours of language tutorial and five hours of mathematics tutorial each week. Every student also attends at least three hours of laboratory per week. The St. John's men don't even bother to answer the criticism of those who say that the curriculum is not scientific. They simply point out that no other liberal arts college in the country requires four years of laboratory work, and illustrate with the fact that the Johns Hopkins Medical School, one of the country's best, will admit...

Author: By Blair Clark, | Title: Head of Liberal Education Committee Reviews St. John's College; Describes Working of New Program | 4/10/1940 | See Source »

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