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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mild protest from a French Canadian. Your excellent account of the election in Quebec (TIME, Nov. 6) is marred by two obvious mistakes. You suggest that the fact that France as well as Britain is in the present war played a part. You are wrong. French Canadians voted to go with the rest of the country, and the rest of the country, as well as the French Canadians, are in this war, not for Britain, nor for France, but for freedom...
...another-as crude a piece of cynicism as any of Hitler's. . . . The so-called "Great-Russian chauvinism" was excoriated by all revolutionary parties prior to the Revolution of 1917. . . . This is the revolutionary past that Stalin betrays, and this is the betrayal he gloats over, by present-day Soviet policy in the Baltic, in Finland, in Poland, in Bessarabia, in the Balkans...
...jokes, he said he had added the sentence to trap newspapermen into believing that he might seek a third term, that the effect was terrific, about as funny as a crutch, and that he had got a kick out of seeing the faces of the reporters present. Trouble with this, according to Raymond Clapper, was that few reporters had paid much attention, and that certainly few had fallen into the President's trap...
Improved passing, spectacular success in their combination plays, and a general tightening up of weakness all along the line accounted for the Crimson's win, the third in which the Seniors and the present team have participated...
Headquarter of the Workshop, where weekly script conferences are held by the students, is in Holyoke House 46. It is planned to equip the rooms with amplifying equipment for auditions and rehearsals and eventually for recording and broadcasting. For the present the students are utilizing the equipment and studios of the World Wide Broadcasting Foundation...