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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ambassador Steinhardt left the Kremlin at 3:30 p.m. and one after another in bus-tied the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian ministers with similar notes expressing their Governments' "expectation that nothing will occur which would prevent Finland from continuing independently her neutral position." After this U. S.-Scandinavian buildup, the Finnish Delegation entered the Kremlin punctually at 5 p.m. and Dr. Paasikivi talked behind closed doors for 45 minutes with Dictator Stalin and Premier Molotov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FINLAND: Active Neutrality! | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...Taxi and bus drivers were soon shouting the "news," Berlin postmen relayed it to housewives tearful with delight. Berlin telephone girls rang up subscribers with the glad news that "Der Krieg ist aus!" ("The war is over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Special Jokes Dept. | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...clock Friday afternoon, seven of Jaakko Mikkola's harriers will board the bus for the trip to Nickerson Field, the site of their first competition of the season, with Boston University. The coach expects a good showing from his men, most of whom are on their way back into form. W. Penn Tuttle '40, will captain the team; others running will be: Richard Wing '40, E. Langdon Burwell '41, Lightbody '40, Malcolm Mackenzie '41, Eugene V. Clark '40, and Frank L. Porter...

Author: By Paul I. Carp, | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/5/1939 | See Source »

Newsboy, candy-butcher, Harvard athlete-in three summers as a bus-driver he made $5,000-Kennedy's life has gone in the sections and jerks of a fast freight train. He was a bank examiner for 18 months, a bank president for three years (youngest in the U. S., at 25). For 20 months he built ships for Bethlehem Steel and for an Assistant Secretary of the Navy named Franklin Roosevelt. For two years, nine months he was president of the Film Booking Offices of America, for five months chairman of Keith-Albee-Orpheum, for six weeks special...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN SERVICE: London Legman | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

Today Detroit's streetcar fare is 6?. Fares on 22 of its 35 bus lines have been reduced from 10? to 5? and Fred Nolan plans to slash all of them to a nickel as soon as he can persuade the city administration to authorize it. His ideal is a transportation system which makes no citizen walk more than a block from his home to the bus or streetcar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Low-Fare Nolan | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

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