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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hrer, on the other hand, ordered his aviators to try out a few of their latest tricks over Loyalist cities, but spared Germans the tedious life of the trenches. His fine-looking, neatly dressed, clean-shaven, well-behaved warriors were mostly staff officers, expert airplane technicians, artilIerymen and anti-aircraft gunners who stayed back of the lines and kept pretty much to themselves. There were probably never more than 10,000 of them in Spain at one time, but for two years they performed a service which neither Spaniards nor Italians were educated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Farewell | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...where sportsmen must take the lead. . . . Sportsmen morally rearmed can unite the world." They signed at the urging of handsome Henry Wilfred ("Bunny") Austin, British Davis Cup tennis player, now Dr. Buchmairs chief MRA-sayer. Sportswriter Vidmer thereupon remarked that, before preaching such doctrines. U. S. sportsmen might well clean up U. S. sport. He concluded: "Moral rearmament, as it is described by the disciples who have brought it to these shores, is magnificent and magnetic, but it also is a mammoth undertaking. It must be universal and unanimous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: MRA Week | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Some coal users shifted to oil. Anthracite operators not strike bound, jumped production 49%, despite a price rise of 15? per ton. But the 40,000,000-ton pile of bituminous was burned down to some 20 to 25,000,000 tons, leaving coal's statistical slate clean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINING: Slate Clean | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Scrubbed whistle-clean, the tomb of Ulysses S. Grant was rededicated in Manhattan. Commented Joseph Hudnut of Harvard Architectural School in The New Republic: "This ponderous, huge monster has seized this unaffected and reticent man and holds him ... in an eternal pillory of pomp and pretense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 8, 1939 | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...Editor, before we enter into another's Augean stables let us first clean out our own. Perhaps the example will be infectious. Elmer H. Cutts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Letter on Tutoring | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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