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Nothing could be more indicative of a healthy state of affairs on Harvard's labor front than the threat of a general walk-out which the kitchen and dining-hall workers hurled at the University early yesterday morning. Hasty, aggressive and doubtless ill-considered, it nevertheless showed a majority of workers democratically exerting their rights without fear of reprisal: in short, the ideal personnel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIX BIT STICK-UP | 3/8/1939 | See Source »

...Doubtless Phi Beta Kappa men are fully aware that they alone are capable of saving the helpless rest of civilization from accidental suicide, but they have certainly been incredibly listless about doing it. So far, all they have accomplished has been in the line of rallies featuring the clarion call of intellectualism and reiterating that the world will be much safer when it is entirely in their hands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WISE MAN'S BURDEN | 3/7/1939 | See Source »

Minority Leader McNary shook hands with Freshman Taft when he sat down. Michigan's Vandenberg, doubtless recognizing no forensic threat in this serious son of the 27th President, leaned over grinning amiably from his nearby seat. Afterwards Ohio's Taft said: "It was just like making a speech any place else, except that the acoustics are terrible. I have a pretty good voice but I felt I had to shout to make people hear me." Presently he was chosen to read Washington's Farewell Address, shouted very nicely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Grab Bag | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Evening's low light: The Duke of Windsor, former King of England, listening to his old friend, Bill Bullitt, say that George Washington would "doubtless have been hanged as a traitor if it had not been for the assistance given him by the French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Traitor's Birthday | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Sally Rand's "Rancherettes" will doubtless obtain a lion's share of the publicity given the San Francisco Exposition, if only because of their pictorial value; but nevertheless the colossal island built into the Pacific Ocean does contain other elements of interest. Contribution to the more orthodox art exhibits has been made by Harvard's Fogg Museum, and Langdon Warner, Curator of the Oriental Department, has been made Director of Fine Arts in the Fair's "Division of Pacific Cultures." Just back from a year's travel in the Orient, Mr. Warner has so organized the display of Pacific culture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections & Critiques | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

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