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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This struck British statesmen as amateurish, fantastic, dangerous. When the Prime Minister rose in the House of Commons he spoke with an air of firmness which fired Associated Press to fire Manhattan's World-Telegram to headline eight columns wide: "BRITAIN WARNS GERMANY-WILL MEET FORCE WITH FORCE." It...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Britain in Crisis | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

Few cinemoppets would be capable of bringing to life the character, imagination and enterprise of Kate Douglas Wiggin's calico-&-pigtails heroine. Smirking, preciously gifted, 9-year-old Shirley Temple is not one of the few. In print, spunky, romancy Rebecca sold soap orders, wrote soaring rhymes, brought a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 21, 1938 | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

If a Frenchman had written The Forsyte Saga, that protracted story of family life might have been no shorter, but it is a safe bet that readers would have been well informed about the Forsytes' sexual life. In The Pasquier Chronicles Georges Duhamel has done for his temperamental, crockery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gallic Galsworthy | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

The bulk of the story centers about the character of Granny Sartoris. She embodies the spirit of "The Unvanquished" older generation. Although a woman, she is responsible for the wellbeing of her community by some clever if shady dealings with Yankee officers. She manages to keep her own plantation and...

Author: By J. G. B. jr., | Title: The Bookshelf | 3/17/1938 | See Source »

Speaking for the baseball squad in regard to the Crimson's editorial of last Monday, we believe that we are especially privileged to have a man of Fred Mitchell's character and ability as our coach. We wish to express publicly our respect and confidence in him.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 3/16/1938 | See Source »

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