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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...venture, worm, shout and lie their way into Congress. Once there they will stop at no lie, slander, or debt wished upon posterity, if they think it will keep them there. Members of the Congress, of course, should not be allowed to serve successive terms. Neither should Presidents. To date the cost of reelections in this country is most of the National Debt. Youth should not ask for representation. Youth should take it, and plenty of it. A young fool is a better bet than an old fool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 30, 1939 | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...basis of team records and team personnel Dartmouth will enter the game a distinct favorite this afternoon. Although not rated nearly as strong as preceding Big Green invaders, the 1939 Coach Blaik edition is undefeated to date, having beaten St. Lawrence, Hampden-Sydney, and Lafayette, and tied Navy...

Author: By Sheffield West, | Title: Crimson Squad Set to Meet Fierce Indian Onslaught; Dinner Heralds Forty-Sixth Meeting of Two Teams | 10/28/1939 | See Source »

...boats sank the 14,115-ton French oil tanker Emile Miguet, their biggest merchant victim to date, and the 5,202-ton British freighter Heronspool. Few days later U-boats destroyed by raking, ruthless shellfire two more French and one British merchantman totaling 26,216 tons. Eight were killed and among the survivors brought ashore by rescue ships 30 wounded victims were on stretchers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: How Did It Happen? | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...merely introduced aviation to warfare. Ethiopia and China were little more than proving grounds. So far as is known, the biggest concentrated air bombardment to date occurred when new-type bombs whistled down on Barcelona New Year's Eve, 1938. At various times dozens of Fascist bombers operated in formation over Spain and, according to German accounts, as many as 800 attacked Polish fortifications in concert last month. But to airmen the world over this still remains white-chip stuff...

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

Britain. Last week in the House of Commons Air Secretary Sir Kingsley Wood laboriously reviewed the war record of the Royal Air Force to date: it flew 1,000,000 miles of reconnaissance and patrol, escorted 100 convoys, sighted submarines on 72 occasions, attacked 34 times, made 1,000-mile flights at high altitudes. In cold figures such as Sir Kingsley cited, the R. A. F. last week had about 6,000 trained pilots, about 3,000 first-line planes. But it had, as well, spirit, ingenuity, determination, and a new plan...

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

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