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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Here, then, are the two conflicting theories. There is no way at the present time of foreseeing which one is the correct course, nor in the future, either, for the die will have been cast, and there is no telling where the other course would have led. Unfortunately there is no set dogma from which one can choose the proper course; it remains for the President, Congress, or public opinion quite arbitrarily to decide...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EAST IS EAST AND . . . | 2/21/1939 | See Source »

...Solicitor-General of the U. S., correct in morning coat, wing collar and striped sponge-bag pants, last week appeared before the U. S. Supreme Court to attack a foreign-born lunchroom proprietor of Hot Springs, Ark. in a case fateful for all alien radicals in the U. S. Important also for Franklin Roosevelt's Secretary of Labor were the Solicitor-General's arguments, for in attacking Radical Joe Strecker, able Robert Houghwout Jackson was clearing the name of Frances Perkins, against whom rested impeachment charges based on her alleged mollycoddling of an even more famed alien radical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Redbug-on-a-Slide | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...British tailors' magazine, Tailor and Cutter, called Winston Churchill, famed for his many hats, his correct but rumpled clothes, a "sartorial chameleon," declared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 13, 1939 | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...Margery Wilson. On the technical side, she dictates only a bare minimum of ritual. She believes that etiquette should spring from a kind heart; her Golden Rule is "use the head and heart, and let the boiled shirts fall where they may." Etiquetteer Fishback's rules aim to correct the bad manners which come from the fact that urban dwellers, for the most part, are indifferent to each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Modern Manners | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...then in the past a group of would-be politicos has aroused so much interest in the subject that certain fundamental weaknesses have come to light. And now the Student Council, sitting in judgement on itself, has decided that its procedure in the past has been in general correct, but that in certain important details it could be improved. So far as it goes, the report is constructive and valuable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COUNCIL AND HARVARD POLITICS | 2/10/1939 | See Source »

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