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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Obviously with a feeling in the pit of his stomach, Foreign Minister Flandin sought to appease the Wilhelmstrasse by offering to submit the Franco-Soviet Pact to The Hague Court to discover whether it violates the Locarno Pact. In the Chamber he urged ratification halfheartedly, almost apologetically. Bleating that the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Abominable Triumph | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

Employing a symbolism that is perhaps too ambitious, Friesen reads into the life of Peter Franzman the existence not only of all Americans but of all mankind, the intense development of the egocentric idealist struggling mightily to grow his splendid wings only to discover that life is a prison, a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 3/3/1936 | See Source »

This project should carry a great appeal, not merely to the sense of economy in the upperclassman who occasionally plays the host to his younger friends, but to the freshman who spends the year wondering what this new fangled House plan is all about. In the House dining hall the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HANDS ACROSS THE TABLE | 2/18/1936 | See Source »

While a great roll of blueprints was arriving at a Shanghai shipyard last week, a number of wealthy U. S. sportsmen were receiving in their morning mail an illustrated brochure entitled "A CRUISE FROM HONG KONG TO PARIS ABOARD AN OCEAN-GOING NING PO JUNK. It is the idea of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Junk de Luxe | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

A solemn group of students stood last fortnight in the office of President Frank Porter Graham of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A freshman had told an upperclassman and the upperclassman had told them and they were there to tell President Graham that the University's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Honor in North Carolina | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

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