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President Conant expressed his confidence that future humanities professors will be able to bring about the necessary shift of emphasis in arts and letters from the more memorization of "the current gilded dogma" to a relation of the humanities "to the personal problems of man and the welfare of modern society...
...opposite sides of Capitol Hill in statements bridging party differences, the these continuation of an international policy free from political strife dominated the public and private discussions over the surprise shift announced last night by the White House...
Shortages in furniture and gear are holding up a planned reshuffling of office space in the Hygiene Building, Dr. Bock said. The shift was required by the removal of the Employees' Clinic from the Hygiene Building to the adjoining one-story building two months...
...there was an alternative theory: maybe the party line had changed again and Lombardo was shifting with it (as U.S. Communists would shift if the line changed from the Foster class-struggle position back to Earl Browder's let's-seem-to-go-along tactics). In any case, Mexico's Communist Party, with a bare 8,000 members, was one of Latin America's least formidable. "There'll be no Communist revolution in Mexico," Adolf Berle had said. "Mexicans have had their revolution-after their own fashion...
Actually Henry and Joe's automaking venture was gaining little by shifting its money from one pocket to another. Joe Frazer, president of both companies, claimed that the shift would bring great savings by bringing production of the Kaiser Special and Frazer cars under one company. Actually production of both cars, which have exactly the same engines, bodies, chassis, was already a combined operation at Willow...