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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WAFS. For the present, all 11,000 jobs are filled in the WAFS-Women's Auxiliary Air Force. Most popular, most beauteous and toniest service, these women live in hostels near air fields and not only cook and chauffeur but get into jumpers and help repair and maintain airplane motors. Technologically it is the top service among the women's fighting forces, and it also has the appeal of propinquity to gallant young airmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: After Boadicea | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Scots ideas of discipline in child training molded the future Queen from birth. In her girlhood as Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, not only was she taught to cook, sew and garden but on certain days, dressed as a housemaid, it was her duty to show tourists the sights of Glamis and afterward when most of them offered tips she was Scotch about that too. About 30 miles from Glamis is the Royal Family's Balmoral Castle, and Queen Mary took an early fancy to budding Lady Elizabeth who presently in 1922 was bridesmaid to Princess Mary. King George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: After Boadicea | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Chicago had loved Cardinal Mundelein ever since it gasped, one morning in 1916, to learn that, at the first public dinner given for him, an anarchist cook had poisoned the soup, laid most of the 300 guests low-but not the new Archbishop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Builder's Death | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Died. Maclay Hoyne, 66, onetime State's Attorney for Cook County, Ill., feared prosecutor of Chicago's corrupt politicians, labor leaders, policemen, arsonists, wiretappers, clairvoyant racketeers (5,000 convictions in eight years); of uremic poisoning; in Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 9, 1939 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...Wilford Cook Saeger '04, whose signature graced tens of thousands of Bursar's Cards, has resigned as Bursar because of ill health, after holding the position for twelve years. Saeger has been kept from his work in Lehman Hall since early in the summer because of illness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wilford Saeger Quits as Bursar; Murray Gives Up English Post | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

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