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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Germans particularly criticized the seedy air and ill-fitting clothes of Professor Dodd. They highly approved the arrival of Ambassador Wilson in faultless full dress, white tie and the black waistcoat correct in Europe on such occasions. Der Führer, although he addresses the Reichstag and makes nearly all his public appearances in the khaki of a simple Storm Trooper, received Ambassador Wilson dressed exactly like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Vivid Satisfaction! | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

Taken out of its context, a statement such as the following sounds rather optimistic: "Democracies sift the opinions and beliefs of all with the end in view of determining the state program by selecting the one most nearly correct or by correlating the less variant attitudes." Nevertheless, as a survey of the different media of Fascist propaganda Mr. Porter's paper is of considerable merit...

Author: By Fritz MORSTEIN Marx and Assistant PROFESSOR Of government, S | Title: Marx Review States Guardian Now Out of Literary Infancy | 3/5/1938 | See Source »

...events, the suggestion that students take too many courses just for credit is one which would be difficult to substantiate and even more difficult to correct if proven true. At Harvard, as in most universities, required courses have been cut to a minimum, and the only ones now exacted are those held essential to a student's understanding of his field. "Snap courses," which indolent students take to fulfill requirements, are also becoming extinct, so much so that Comparative Literature 35 has long been renowned as the exception proving the rule...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REGRETTABLE SPEECH | 3/5/1938 | See Source »

...weights the returns in favor of the lowest paid workers by applying to their pensions some of the money contributed by their more fortunate comrades. But while the Social Security Act redistributes the security, the University plan perpetuates without any amelioration the extraordinary inequality which a pension system should correct...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PENSION POOR | 3/4/1938 | See Source »

...best of Latin American Presidents is at least half a dictator, and burly Agustin P. Justo of Argentina, although he loves to dress in the most correct cut of cutaway, is no better than the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Justo's Man | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

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