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...reliably reported content of the draft treaty as it stands today (subject to minor alterations before it is made public and offered for ratification in London and in Rome) was scooped last week by famed "Augur" (see p. 55). The regular press services soon afterward had it from highest British and Italian quarters. In general the treaty is to secure against Italian aggression British trade routes and spheres of influence on the Mediterranean and Red Seas, and to secure against British aggression the Italian trade routes and territories in this area, including Ethiopia (see map). The treaty would become operative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Chamberlain's Hat | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

...quarter, he mutters, but necessary. He has a better use for it than as a tip. He slips it into his pocket; there is no jingle from any companion coins. Squaring his shoulders and relaxing his features into peaceful friendliness, he attacks the gradual elevation of worn stone steps. Afterward he will walk home. It will be all right, proper. Today the best people will walk, and he will walk among them and be part of them. The arched entryway swallows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 4/16/1938 | See Source »

Harvard did almost as well during Depression as during prosperity-$70,969,589 in nine years between 1920 and 1929, $60,261,527 in eight years since 1929. Chicago did better, with $30,650,030 before 1929, $48,604,771 afterward. Yale, which started an endowment drive in 1926, reaped a bumper harvest in Depression's soil. In the 1920s it raised $64,199,898, in the 1930s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Good & Bad Times | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

Last spring, with rubber bounding over the 25?-per-lb. level for the first time since 1929, the I. R. R. C. met in London, upped the rubber quota for the second half of 1937 to 90% of the base (TIME. March 29, 1937). Almost immediately afterward came the collapse of the British commodity boom, and rubber consumption presently slumped about 25%. In the U. S., world's biggest rubber buyer, rubber consumption dropped as much as 8,000 tons per month and the price to 14? a lb. Last December, therefore, the I. R. R. C. again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Optimistic Rubber | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...game-filled woods, hunting bear and deer with his kindhearted pa and a clan of big, bearded, hell-raising moonshiners and horse traders. Occasionally his pa takes him to visit a hearty old woman who lives in a village on the St. Johns River. He sees a flood, afterward goes hunting where stranded wild animals are thicker than flies. Jody's pal is a pet fawn. He takes it on hunting trips, even sleeps with it when he can get around his fussy, practical ma. The idyl ends when hard scrub reality forces him to kill his fawn because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scrub Idyl | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

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