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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lewis has done well not to take this lying down. He has evidently asked himself what he thinks, and his altogether natural cry of "You tell me!" has waited long. In challenging the college publications of the last four years to uncover "a single editorial or article of any profundity. . . . on the subject of education," he no doubt remembers that these publications, likewise in his predicament, can only echo his cry. At the same time, he should arouse the Crimson to point to its issue of September 18, 1936, in which the editors reproduced in full the Tercentenary Oration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

...with eyebrows plucked, lips rouged and fingernails enameled a brilliant scarlet. The Blue Danube in swing. Saint-Gaudens' Lincoln with face lifted, wrinkles erased and character lines obliterated. The legs of a fine old Chippendale piece knocked off and replaced with chrome pipe. The interior of Mount Vernon done over in 1938 night-club modern. The mellow patina of a fine old bronze reliquary burnished away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 17, 1938 | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

...California's bumblingly conservative Governor Merriam is, curiously, the only State office candidate officially endorsed by T. N. R. P. Reason: he has done homage to the Plan in his desperate fight against Democrat Culbert Olson and "Thirty Dollars Every Thursday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACHUSETTS: Republican Realism | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

...Barcelona, the official Leftist newsorgan Vanguardia warned that Portuguese colonies may go where the Sudetenland has gone unless something is done to check "the new iniquity now incubating within the heads of the dictators of European policy." Vanguardia followed this by making friendly overtures to Portuguese Dictator Salazar, who ever since the Spanish war began has sided with General Franco, encouraging German and Italian freighters and war craft to use Portuguese facilities in taking troops and supplies to Spanish Rightists. Keynoted Vanguardia unexpectedly: "All Spaniards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: All Are One | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

...cozy at No. 10 Downing Street last week and Mr. Chamberlain went fishing. It had been a titan's task to win brief leisure for this favorite recreation of Britain's best-known brother of the angle and Prime Minister. His method is to get things done by businesslike steps. First, he averted European war by Czechoslovak dismemberment. Second, he won a vote of confidence on this act last week, 366 to 144, in the House of Commons. Third, he averted strife in his Conservative Party by postponing indefinitely the annual Party Conference which was to have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: What Price Peace? | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

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