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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finally McKay questions whether America could contribute to a just peace. She could scarcely lend her moral weight while "war aims of the Allies continue in their present obscurity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: American Interests Jeopardized it U. S. Intervenes in Europe's War, McKay Warns | 11/24/1939 | See Source »

...faculty counsellors of President Conant's program for extra-curricular study of American civilization, will include the following subjects: meaning of the westward movement; agricultural conservation; problem of immigration and foreign minorities; history of trade unionism; history of the Supreme Court; changing concepts of American destiny; economic integration of America; American idealism and religions; history of the theatre; and public health...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thirty Undergraduates to Dramatize American History Over Radio Waves | 11/24/1939 | See Source »

...lack of insight on the army's part cost Spain all her colonies in America," he pointed out. He said that when the Spanish Republic was established in 1933, President Azana tried to reform the army and to cut down expenditures which were three times as much as those devoted to education. The army began to plot against the Republic, and this culminated in the Civil...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIRA SHOWS WEAKNESS OF FRANCO'S REGIME | 11/21/1939 | See Source »

...rank with The Times of London (which it resembles) or the New York Times. Because of its exhaustive foreign coverage (La Prensa prints probably more cable news than any other daily) it has been called one of the ten greatest newspapers in the world. Beyond question it is Latin America's greatest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Latins Honored | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...with a big stick is loose in America, but he is not walking quietly. Commissioned by Congress to investigate un-American activities, Dies has maneuvered himself into a one-man Supreme Court to judge what is and is not "American" under the Constitution. He has made "isms" almost as popular as sex-murders, and with the press caught by the scruff of its neck feeds it daily with red meat, mostly carrion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HOBGOBLIN IS A MAN | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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