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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most likely explanation was that in the bluff and counter-bluff of present European diplomacy, Dictator Stalin was simply clearing the decks to be ready at a moment's notice to jump either way. Foreign Commissar Molotov, inexperienced in diplomacy, represents no fixed foreign policy. Chief claim to U. S. fame was his denunciation of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh as a "paid liar" for alleged slurs on Soviet aviation. Speaking German and French, he will still be able to talk turkey with the British-French "Peace Front." If these talks fail (as they were on the point of doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Maxim's Exit | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...from his wife, her mother, Mrs. Edna Jacobs, and their "confidential adviser" an accounting of $300,000 of his funds which he alleges they secured from him in money and property over a course of time. At week's end the defendants had not filed an answer to either suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Very, Very, VERY Tired | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...Rockefeller-founded University of Chicago, a student who wanted to play tennis on the university courts could not produce either his tuition card or the 15? fee. Finally, after he signed the register, the attendant doubtfully admitted him. The dimeless tennist: John D.'s grandson, David Rockefeller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 15, 1939 | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

Struve suggested that if the University of Texas provided the observatory and the University of Chicago a staff to run it, they might accomplish more in such a cooperative enterprise than either could separately. Forthright Bob Hutchins forthwith picked up his telephone, called U. of T.'s president, got a favorable answer, and soon the project was under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Where, How & Why? | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...London, the gaffers of the Royal Meteorological Society, impressed by the excellent observations he had been mailing in for three years, proffered Roger Cade a fellowship in the Society. Roger proved to be 14 years old. Anxious beard-wagging over the by-laws discovered no age limit at either end for Fellows, so Roger Cade was admitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 15, 1939 | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

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