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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week this friendship developed into an alliance. In the British House of Commons Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain announced that Turkey and Britain had agreed to conclude a "definite long-term agreement of reciprocal character in the interest of their national security. In the event of aggression leading to war...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: Bargain Week | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Last week an eastern waterfront character named Jacob ("Beacon Jack") Lichter appeared in & around Boston. At Everett, one of Boston's seaport suburbs Mr. Lichter shortly appeared in effigy (see cut). He was deemed worth hanging by C. I. 0. seamen who, having called a strike on Standard Oil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Old-Fashioned Strike | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

"Our ultimate faith is in education. Let us dedicate this Littauer Center, housing Harvard's Graduate School of Public Administration, to the education of men of character, as wise leaders of a free people," Lucius N. Littauer '78 said yesterday at the dedication of Harvard's newest graduate school, which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Donor Dedicates Littauer School to Training Leaders | 5/9/1939 | See Source »

Carefully chosen, the pictures gave a solid demonstration of Tradition in U. S. art. This Americanism was nothing grandiose: just a persistent modesty, candor and good workmanship. Despite all European influences, U. S. art kept its character through the work of the Colonial portraitists, the obscure artists of the Western...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art Traps | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

To underline its central character, Juárez makes blond-bearded Maximilian a finer straw man than history allows. Benito Pablo Juárez, the Indian-blooded Constitutional President of Mexico, is a democrat because "when a monarch misrules, he changes the people; when a president misrules, the people change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 8, 1939 | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

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