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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Administrator Harrington responded quickly to the insurrection. "I find it difficult to call them strikes," said he. "A strike is called for the purpose of opening up negotiations. Here there is nothing to negotiate. Any executive official is bound by the law. The 130-hour law exists and I can't change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Mutiny on the Bounty | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...event of European war the effect of a mandatory embargo is not difficult to predict. It would improve Hitler's chances for victory in a Blitzkrieg, or lightning war. It might not appreciably hurt the long-term chances of England and France, both of which have rich empires of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE UNITED STATES: How to be Neutral | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...knew, for there was no accredited neutral correspondent within days of the trouble-spot. Only the Japanese wounded jamming Harbin hospitals showed the world outside that the border war was not entirely imaginary. Last week Associated Press Correspondent Russell Brines, who works out of Tokyo, after a long, difficult trip, managed to reach the remote Mongolian frontier and began to make the war make sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OUTER MONGOLIA: Frontier Incident | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...Feelings of sexual inadequacy are betrayed by limericks which describe persons with deficient or fantastic sexual equipment, and by others which represent sex relations as difficult, impossible, or attended by disheartening accidents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Beneath Genteel Externals | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

...establishment of brokerage banks, you can, as far as this subject of customer protection is concerned, get rid of the SEC and of SEC regulations on that subject. We much prefer the latter: it is far simpler, less expensive, less irritating to you and less difficult for us." from an annual 160 to 220 per bird without increased feeding; annual milk output from 8,000 to 12,000 lbs. per cow.) Thus while Author Prentice is personally one of the least likely U. S. citizens to be threatened by hunger, the subject is one that concerns him practically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETS: Fire Warning | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

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