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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russia's attitude favorable; 4) rejecting Russia's proposal for a six-power conference as premature. By the end of March Russia was reported: 1) to be pleased by the British stand on Poland; 2) to see Britain yielding; 3) to be ready to sign; 4) to doubt Prime Minister Chamberlain's sincerity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Ready for Signing | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...Petersburg, Fla., two ladies protested to the city manager because the drakes on Mirror Lake outnumbered the ducks, 5 to 1. Reported Public Works Head Frank Lee, to whom the complaint was referred: "I doubt whether we will be able to reason with the drakes and induce them to move elsewhere. As far as I have been able to determine, we have received no complaints from the female ducks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 7, 1939 | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...years out of Princeton, Holmes Moss Alexander was elected to the Maryland Legislature. There he found no cause to doubt "the basic assumption of professional lobbying, that every man has his price or his weakness," soon committed political suicide by saying: "The way we made swag of the taxpayers' money was little short of piracy." His brief experience as a legislator stood him in good stead when he came to write his second novel, American Nabob...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rugged Individual | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...hitherto discovered. Since Soviet science is more notable for enthusiasm than for scholarly caution, some skeptics might have wondered whether the skeleton was really a Neanderthal child or just the luckless progeny of some more recent Mongol wanderer. Dr. Hrdlicka, however, pronounced it a genuine Neanderthal specimen, left no doubt that was one of the most precious childr in anthropology's bare nursery. Dr. Hrdlicka knows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Precious Child | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

During the course of the meeting N. N. B. A. held its annual election. No one was in doubt how it would turn out. Re-elected for the 14th time was its only president: 85-year-old Major (Spanish-American War paymaster) Richard R. Wright, president of the Citizens & Southern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Up From Slavery | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

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