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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Optimistic before the voting began, the 21 year old government concentrator did not let the outcome of the balloting disturb his day. He spent the evening studying in Widener Library for what his mother described as "a very hard examination tomorrow...
...Austria and the Sudeten area has presented the Third Reich with organizational problems of the first magnitude not solved thus far. Germany's Eastern neighbors, though nominally attached to the Berlin-Rome axis, are certainly no reliable partners in any military test. German penotrotion of Southeast Europe which she began with the emasculation of Czechoslovakia has not progressed beyond the first stage...
Although the science of psychoanalysis was developed long before the War, it was not until the hectic '20s that psychoanalysts began to open their science to large groups instead of restricting their skilful emotional probings to a few isolated individuals. In 1924, a group of socially-minded psychiatrists and psychoanalysts* formed the American Orthopsychiatric** Association, an organization whose aim was practical activity on a large scale. Members included not only psychoanalysts and psychiatrists, but teachers, social workers, and academic psychologists and sociologists as well...
...Minnesota & Ontario Paper Co. One of its by-products was a rigid insulating board called Insulite. Dahlberg, several M. & 0. associates and Insulite's inventor, one Carl Muench, next devised a similar board made out of bagasse, the fibrous residue of chewed-up sugarcane, named it Celotex and began making it commercially in 1921. By 1929 annual sales of their brown insulating board had reached $1,479,000 and President Dahlberg was rich...
...Thus began the radio log of United Air Lines' Trip 6-Seattle to San Diego, Calif.- on the rainy night of November 28, 1938. Nine hours later Co-Pilot Lloyd E. Jones was dead, drowned in the surf off Point Reyes, near Oakland. So were the stewardess and three of the four passengers. The ship, a Douglas DC-3, out of gas, off its course and miserably mismanaged by its First Pilot Charles B. Stead, was a wave-washed wreck...