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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impossible to grant Mr. Greene his "implications." This war is only a prelude to the decades of Napoleonic struggles which would have to be waged before any such peace could be concluded. But to avert anything less than this, the United States must...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GREENE PASTURES | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

Aging Prophet Herbert George Wells, 72, published in England his 85th book, The Fate of Homo Sapiens. He contended that it is "still just possible" that democratic brainwork may avert Man's fate; otherwise mankind, "which began in a cave, will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 14, 1939 | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...their State. Taxes on the pari-mutuel take at four proposed tracks (probable sites: Camden, Atlantic City, Asbury Park and a spot near the Jersey end of the George Washington Bridge, just across the river from New York City) will add $5,000,000 a year for State Relief, avert a threatened State income tax (which Jerseyites have so far escaped) and put 6,000 men to work. At least that is what the politicians promised the voters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: For Relief | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

Over the U. S. last week hung the prospect of industrial war on a frightful scale. In a ballroom on the 19th floor of Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel, a onetime college professor in Alabama addressed the only men in the U. S. who could avert this calamity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Humble John | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...great difference separates the new period from the one before the World War. Citizens of that pre-War world had no knowledge of what lay ahead of them, had no historical precedent for the tragedy toward which they were moving, and even the statesmen who tried to avert it had no conception of its terrible scope. On the evening of Aug. 3, 1914, when Great Britain pondered war, Sir Edward Grey stood at the window of the Foreign Office, watching the lamps being lit in the summer dusk, and said: "The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: 1,063 Weeks | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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