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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through the land where their scattered regional offices now cost citizens dear in time to find them, deal separately with them. Affected by the altered grouping will be 90,400 Federal employes in all, only 24,982 of them in Washington. The President in this plan did not dwell on the unpopular subject of how many of these jobs would be telescoped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Plan No. 1 | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

This solution, it was reported, will divide Yugoslavia into three autonomous provinces: 1) the Dalmatian coast, Croatia in the northwest; 2) central Bosnia, where dwell a confusion of Moslem, Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox Serbs and Croats; 3) southeastern Serbia. Each section will have separate self-governing administrations for local affairs; the three provinces will remain united by a common throne and a central Government which retains ultimate control of finances, defense, foreign relations. Creation of provincial diets, because of constitutional limitations, must wait until King Peter comes of age. It was a nice settlement; big question mark was whether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: After Czecho-Slovakia | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...chorus of 13 bedecked in feathers and representing birds of a mythical kingdom, "swings out" with a none too hospitable greeting to Aristophanes' two wandering Athenians who are searching for "some quiet, easy-going place where they can settle down and dwell in peace." After a struggle and a series of complications, Athenians and birds are finally united into "one big happy family" and the play ends with a marriage feast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chorus Trucks, Swings as Classical Club Portrays Aristophanes' "Birds" | 4/20/1939 | See Source »

...hardly possible to dwell long on Kirkland without mentioning their distinguished record in the Straus Trophy competition, in which it has had by far the most consistenly high average...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Characteristics Of Kirkland and Leverett Related | 3/29/1939 | See Source »

...most treacherous of major diseases, trichinosis, is caused by eating underdone pork in which larvae of the hairlike worm Trichinella spiralis dwell. Trichinosis, with its severe intestinal pains and high temperature is rarely diagnosed, more often confused with typhoid or rheumatic fever. Although public health officials have long known that the U. S. has a higher incidence of trichinosis than any other country in the world,* even the efficient Public Health Service did not publish until last year the astounding fact that an estimated 16,000.000 persons in the U. S. are infected with trichinae...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Manhattan Trichinosis | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

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