Word: rapid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discussion will feature an address by Clarence H. Haring '07, Bliss Professor of Latin-American History. Professor Haring will discuss social problems caused by the rapid growth of industry in Latin America...
...addition to these more-experienced players, Coach Barnaby has a squad of about thirty including a dozen untried members with noteworthy possibilities. Among the Seniors are are Gene Nickerson, the squad's only southpaw, who specializies in drop shots and lobs and who made a rapid advance from the "C" to the "A" team last year, and John Glidden, who held the number nine spot against Yale two years ago but was beaten out last season...
Topics under consideration will include the question of the place of partisanship in the defense program; participants will also argue whether the program undermines our democratic institutions, and whether capital and labor can both make equal contributions towards solving the problem of rapid armament...
Fastest conveyances of the 1940 Marines will be six Navy "four-piper" destroyers, refitted to crowd 200 men below decks for a run at 30 knots. This fleet will transport a force closely patterned on the German combat teams-1,000-1,200 men with rapid-fire infantry weapons, artillery, tanks, engineer equipment. If trouble starts in the Caribbean, the Marines hope to get there first with the most firepower, have the situation well in hand...
Charles L. Wagner is a U. S. impresario who looks like Jim Farley in a toupee and who long ago exchanged his flat Illinois drawl for rapid-fire Manhattanese. Fifty years ago he gave up collecting celebrities' autographs, began collecting them on contracts instead. Since then Impresario Wagner has barnstormed up & down the U. S. selling such big-time figures as William Jennings Bryan, John McCormack, Galli-Curci. Mary Garden, Walter Gieseking to the public...