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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eleutherios ("Liberty") Venizelos, 72, "Father of the Greek Republic," who was born on what was the Turkish island of Crete, singlehanded doubled the area of modern Greece, tripled its population, dethroned and throned its Kings, led its only winning wars and won for it a prestige based, not on its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Void after Venizelos | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

Explained President Valentine: "In their terms and objectives the Rochester Prize Scholarships may be compared . . . with the Rhodes Scholarships. No scholarship examination will be set ... but the Committee may ask candidates to take certain aptitude tests. ... In addition to intellectual abilities the Committee . . . will demand qualities of high character, industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Rochester Roundup | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

Deprive a man of food for three days and he will respond biologically. Then give him a chance to steal a loaf of bread and he will respond culturally. But where biology stops and culture begins is a question over which sociologists, psychologists and anthropologists have quarreled long & loud. In...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: When to Kill | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

For "his outstanding achievements, modesty, exemplary character and inspiration to the Negro youth of America," Fisticuffer Joe Louis was last week made a director of Victory Mutual Life

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Victory | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

When Max Beerbohm wrote Zuleika Dobson, his farcical satire on Oxford (1911), he included in that gallery of light-hearted caricatures a character who still stands as the type - at least to English eyes - of the U. S. Rhodes Scholar. Abimelech V. Oover, like his brothers, was an admirable and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rhodes Scholer | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

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