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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When he landed in Paris-equipped with letters of introduction so that he would not be stranded-he had his first taste of public adulation and it was good. He had done something which, after it was done, his logical mind could perceive, was reasonable occasion for acclaim. He had the time of his life standing on the Aero Club balcony with Ambassador Herrick and waving flags at the crowd below. When he returned to the U. S. after visiting the capitals of Europe and rode, up Fifth Avenue in a paper shower, he knew that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Press v. Lindbergh | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

Strait, author of "Union New" and former New York Union correspondent in Geneva, Switzerland spoke recently at the University as guest lecturer in the Government Department explaining his democratic union idea which has received widespread acclaim...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STREIT TO SPEAK | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Birthday. Meanwhile, if nothing intervenes, Greater Germany will vociferously acclaim the soth birthday of its creator and Führer this week. On the same day-April 20-Herr Himmler will quietly, without public fanfare, celebrate the fifth anniversary of his appointment as Inspector of the Gestapo. Troops will march down Berlin's Unter den Linden and through the crowded Tiergarten as the 50-year-old Führer receives the frenzied homage of an adoring nation. Clustered around Herr Hitler on a reviewing stand are to be the familiar, conspicuous figures of the Nazi hierarchy-fat, strapping Field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Secret Policeman | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...craving of these goldfish cultists," explained Chicago's Consulting Psychologist Robert N. McMurray, "really is for public acclaim, that is, exhibitionism. The eater of goldfish takes delight in the repulsiveness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Goldfish Derby | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...long centuries of European civilization, many have been the intellectual giants in whose ears the plaudits of world acclaim never rang. It remained for a wiser posterity to relegate them to niches in an immortal hall of fame. For such a career, fate never destined the name of Albert Einstein, a man whom kings and princes have feted, whom eminent scientists have hailed as a second Newton, and to whom peace-loving multitudes in every land have turned as a fortress of tranquil serenity in a world delirious with the war fever of nationalism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 3/29/1939 | See Source »

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