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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Legion post petitioned the Board of Education to start a junior R. O. T. C. unit in Kenosha High School. A group of ministers quickly objected. Soon mass meetings and fierce arguments were in full swing. Advocates of R. O. T. C. claimed it developed character and physical fitness, its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Knitting Warrior | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

Last fortnight the Soviet film industry released its official answer in the U. S. An arresting character study of Nikolai Lenin during the last days of the Provisional Kerensky Government Lenin in October went far out of its way (but never off the present "party line") to convince U. S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 18, 1938 | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

Although the provision for a single civil service administrator to replace the present commission was one of the questionable virtues of the now deceased reorganization bill, the extension of the merit system "upward, outward, and downward" was widely hailed as a reform of revolutionary character, and its defeat was the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STALKING THE PATRONAGE WOLVES | 4/14/1938 | See Source »

While Governor Hurley, vetoer of the Oath Law, refused to comment last night, Thomas Dorgan, ex-assemblyman and sponsor of the bill stated: "My feeling on matters of this character have been expressed by me so many times in the past that further comment is unnecessary."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY SUPPORTS HICKS IN FACE OF CIVIL WAR BLAST | 4/14/1938 | See Source »

To the Victor (Gaumont British) is a braw and bracing cinema story directed by versatile young Robert Stevenson (Nine Days a Queen, Non-Stop New York), based on Alfred Ollivant's Bob Son of Battle. As the dour old sheepherder, whose heart is as black as his dog, Black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Buy British | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

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