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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Direct Action." To the question-Just what does Henlein want?-the Sudeten Führer last week made answer. To G. Ward Price, friend of Adolf Hitler and correspondent for Viscount Rothermere's pro-German London Daily Mail, Henlein declared: "The northwest end of Czechoslovakia forms a sort of foreign appendix in the body of the German Reich. This appendix cannot be allowed to remain in its present state of high inflammation. . . . If such a dangerous condition is neglected, the inflamed appendix would burst one day and instantly infect all Europe with political peritonitis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Inflamed Appendix | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

Easy Money is a two-and-a-half-hour afternoon broadcast over WPG (Atlantic City). Presenting riddles at five-minute intervals, the station pays $1 to the listener who is first to telephone the correct answer. Innumerable wise contestants were jumping the starting gun by dialing the first four digits of WPG's number, snapping the final digit as soon as they had the solution. Until the wires were cleared by mass attack on the fifth digit, that trick automatically put busy signals on the ten telephones with numbers beginning with the same four digits. Because of the oddities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Riddle Ruckus | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...snobbery of Jack Stuart's Collegians, with its clean-cut young leader artfully squelching better musicians than himself. Why Author Baker wrote a trimmed-up novel instead of a straight biography of Bix Beiderbecke is a question Young Man with a Horn raises but does not answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jazz Hero | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

Because the difficulty of entering grades and carying on the regular office routine at the same time makes it impossible to answer individual requests, the Dean's Office plans to forestall the annual traffic jam by making clear today the above subsidary facts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRADE SEEKERS AVOID UNIVERSITY'S OFFICES! | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...these arguments can satisfactorily answer the poser of that two and five-eights. The fact is that Harvard and Princeton have made a laudable effort to pierce the hypocritical cloak enveloping the gridiron openings. Yale has refused. The Elis will quietly continue their pre-season conditioners at Gales Ferry prior to the opening date they recognize...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO AND FIVE-EIGHTHS | 5/31/1938 | See Source »

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