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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pretty place to visit. If the movies showed some of those cases instead of parades and medals and glory, people could see what really is war. We think if people in this country knew some of the terrible things that happened in the last war they wouldn't allow another one. We two volunteered. We were not drafted. We honestly believed that it was a just and right war. And now when we read the papers and see the rearming in Europe and right here that's going on it makes us think that all the things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 20, 1936 | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

There can be no more proper way in which to allow Harvard students to express their sincere sympathy for the cause than to put the meeting for once within the pale of respectability. The decision to let a well-organized parley in the soothing atmosphere of Sanders Theatre take the place of the unforgettable free-for-all on the Widener steps or other unhallowed ground should draw to the gathering the best elements of the anti-war movement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PEACEFUL PEACE | 4/16/1936 | See Source »

...student waiters embodies one important concession, which answers effectively the old argument that student waiters have not sufficient time to meet the Freshman physical requirements. In the future the exercise rules for all Freshmen will be abolished during the week before November hours, midyear and final examinations. This will allow three weeks before examinations and six weeks during the Exam periods, in which Freshmen may rejoice in stolid inactivity, with only a book in their hands to make the red corpuscles multiply or to get fresh air in the lungs. Looked at from this angle, Dr. Bock has been more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BODY BEAUTIFUL | 4/14/1936 | See Source »

...this picture. One sees the Jews abandoning ghettoes and launching into robust pioneering, and one forgets that there are still throngs of them in homelessness and persecution. One forgets, that is, until reminded that the picture is produced by Leo Herman for the Palestine Foundation Fund, largely to allow Jews to escape from Germany. If the facts do not substantiate the impression given of a great folk migration, still it is true that the last two decades have seen inspiring fruits of an inspired determination to break away from the sackcloth and ashes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/9/1936 | See Source »

...this ancient inconvenience came closer when workmen hoisted a 50-ft. eyebar from a barge below, finally joined the two halves of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, linked San Francisco to the east for the first time. Simultaneously, the California Railroad Commission concluded long deliberations, decided to allow electric trains to cross the huge span...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: San Francisco Bridges | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

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