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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last century. The President feels that, whatever is sacrificed by mixing in world affairs, American interests are served only when such a plan is vigorously undertaken. Here is where the Easterners are sure thus they have a much more far-sighted view, that if the United States does not act now, some future time may be too late. The reason is that if England and France are forced into the position of becoming second rate powers, this country will never again be able to feel as secure from external danger as it now is. Consequently, the President believes the United...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EAST IS EAST AND . . . | 2/21/1939 | See Source »

...interest of a clearer understanding of the Wagner Labor Act, I wish to correct an error in your account of my radio speech, reported in the Crimson, Thursday last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 2/21/1939 | See Source »

...Must Love Someone (by Jack Kirkland & Leyla Georgie; produced by Jack Kirkland) tells of six fly young ladies who, at the turn of the century, made up a Florodora Sextet.* In Act I, along with six swains, they render Tell Me, Pretty Maiden quite fetchingly; then for the rest of the show they gallivant with various admirers whose attentions go considerably beyond candy, books and flowers. One Pretty Maiden goes in for blackmail; another enjoys watching her aged suitor tumble down a flight of steps; a third is kept by a pal of the Mayor's; a fourth gets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 20, 1939 | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Unconquered is by the correspondent who was the first to get the full story of Chiang Kai-shek's kidnapping at Sian (First Act in China). He saw the debacle of the 29th Route Army at Peiping, spent nearly a year in Soviet territory. His book gives detailed descriptions of guerrilla fighting and of the Red Army's famed "short attack." Best testimony to the guerrillists' deadly effectiveness are Author Bertram's quotations from the gloomy diaries of the Japanese soldiers who fought them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ifs Over China | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...act little short of criminal to put Charlie Ruggles--at his ladylike worst--on the same program with "Dawn Patrol," and the news reel needs editing badly; but when that is said, adverse criticism of the bill now at the University should stop. There may be some who will disagree with the theme of "Dawn Patrol," for it is pure isolationist propaganda, but there can be no one to say that it is not well done. Not one whit less real than the trenches of "All's Quiet," the headquarters of Squadron 39 reeks with atmosphere; and the men, down...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

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