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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...violating it by selling them to her. This left open the point of whether or not the shipments were still "in violation" of a treaty to which the U. S. was a party. Obviously, it would never do for the Secretary of State to admit that his Government, in however small a detail, * had actually committed a technical breach of a treaty, and Mr. Hull did not do so. Instead, he launched into a long reproof of Columnist Pearson which, contrary to all State Department press conference convention, was handed out for full quotation. Excerpts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Cornfield Lawyers | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...Show me a nigger who can do a problem in Euclid or parse a Greek verb," jeered Southern Statesman John C. Calhoun before the Civil War, "and I'll admit he's a human being." Since that challenge the doors of higher learning have swung slowly open to U. S. Negroes. Last week the Julius Rosenwald Fund, making its annual fellowship awards, had no trouble finding Negroes to fulfill the Calhoun specifications for a human being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Human Beings | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

When they read 400 Million Customers, Carl Crow's engaging best-seller about life among Chinese businessmen, skeptics may have suspected that his Chinese sympathies had been inspired by his profitable Shanghai advertising business. When they learned that he had long been a Confucian, even skeptics had to admit it looked as though he had written from a well-informed heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Chinese Wise Man | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...orthodox Confucians Author Crow's Confucius may sometimes seem confusing. But they will have to admit that he succeeds in peeling off a lot of the 24-century coating of official lacquer. In fact, as Author Crow portrays him, the huge, ugly wise man emerges with a look as human as Benjamin Franklin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Chinese Wise Man | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...talk lately about political refugees from Central Europe and whether or not the United States ought to admit them tends to hide the fact there are already many persons in this country who were forced to leave Germany and Italy. Einstein, Thomas Mann, and Breuning are well-known refugees. A group of such scholars has set up in New York the New School of Social Research, which well-established institution has gone so far as to publish its own quarterly magazine and issue as its first supplement the pamphlet on Taxation. Recommended by the April Fortune as essential reading...

Author: By M. O. P., | Title: The Bookshelf | 5/10/1938 | See Source »

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