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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Poland Earle stayed at Ambassador Biddle's estate, which was rented from the Polish Ambassador in America, Count Potocki. Just two weeks after he left the estate the Russians entered this district. All the large estates were divided up and the land given to the peasants. Earle was in lots of air-raids. "My most scary moment," he says, "was the night we spent on the 'Washington' at Le Havre before sailing. We noticed that afternoon that about 100 yards from where the boat was lying on the dock, there was a small island with about 100 large oil tanks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "English, French Propaganda Plays Up Defeats," Says Earle | 10/27/1939 | See Source »

Prevented by time and the Versailles Treaty from building a great Navy, Germany realized that to rise and fight again she must count on an air force for its long-range striking force. The two men most directly concerned with building the Air Force were one all the world has heard of, Hermann Göring, and one very few have heard of, Erhard Milch. Though he has kept closest surveillance over the Air Force, Göring has in recent months taken over many outside duties, and the real propeller of the force is now Erhard Milch, Inspector-General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: 72-Hour War? | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...Died. Count Enrico Rossi di Montelera, 66, head of the famed Italian wine firm of Martini & Rossi, uncle of speedboat-racer Count Theo Rossi; in Turin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 23, 1939 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Although they played a brand of soccer that can only be characterized as sloppy, the Crimson booters edged Tufts' Jumbos yesterday afternoon on the Business School field by a 2-1 count...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOTERS LOOK SLOPPY IN 2-1 WIN OVER TUFTS | 10/19/1939 | See Source »

...that "as marks get worse, there is a definite progression towards fewer children." It means that the Princeton man--if he has any hope of survival--faces a serious future. He must forget his clubs, his tweeds, his weekends, especially his New York (whose results, after all, don't count in the official survey) and concentrate on four years of hard study. The higher ranking the student, the greater chance for children. Let the midnight oil flow, let the pages of Aristotle turn, and the Princeton boy will grow to manhood and become the apple of the census-taker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RACE IS NOT TO THE SWIFT | 10/19/1939 | See Source »

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