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When Major Buchan orders a family of slaves freed, Posey calls it sentimentality, sells them down the river and applies the money on Buchan debts. But when his own house servant (who is also his half brother) is shot for imputed rape. Posey shoots the white man, who is the narrator's oldest brother. As another result of Posey's following his own rather than the Buchan social codes, his wife is driven crazy. Yet the narrator withholds moral judgment; the tragedy, he concludes, is one in which Fate pulls the strings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Border State of Mind | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

Besides President Sullivan the 1938-30 Council consists of Robert M. Bunker '30, treasurer, J. Spence Harvin, '39, secretary, Cieveland Amory '39, Oilver P. Bolton '30, Claronce E. Boston '39, Charles L. Burwell '39, Morton L. Freed '39, Robert L. Green '39, F. Austin Harding '39, James Tobin '39, Mason Fernald '40, Theodore L. Hazlett Jr. '40, Frederick Holdworth '40, James D. Lightbody '40, Douglas Mereer '40, and Phil C. Neal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Council Differs From Similar School Organizations | 9/1/1938 | See Source »

Pharaoh of Egypt thought so highly of Joseph for inventing the ever-normal granary plan of crop control that he freed him from jail, made him governor. Although the scheme worked well enough then, it has taken thousands of years, millions of dollars and Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace to put it on the grand scale. After four years Secretary Wallace finally succeeded in getting Congress to adopt the plan in the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938. Last week his emissary to the International Wheat Conference in London ambitiously proposed putting the granary plan on a world-wide basis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CROPS: Grandiose Scheme | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

...atom, which is neutral in electric charge, becomes ionized when one or more of its tiny electrons is knocked away by an outside force. The particles resulting from ionization, including both the freed electrons and the remainder of the atom, have electric charges, and can exert electric force...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Scientific Scrapbook | 6/8/1938 | See Source »

Every member of the new Council was present, including, besides officers Sullivan, Bunker, and Harvin, Cleveland Amory '39, Charles L. Burwell '39, Oliver P. Bolton '39, Clarence E. Boston '39, Morton L. Freed '39, Robert L. Green '39, F. Austin Harding '39, Richard H. Sullivan '39, Mason Fernard '40, Theodore L. Hazlett Jr., '40, Frederick Holdsworth '40, James D. Lightbody '40, Douglas Mercer '40, and Phil C. Neal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sullivan Is successor to Keppel As President of Student Council | 5/26/1938 | See Source »

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