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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...snorted with vexation at news that Socialist Blum had said "the Communists represent 1,500,000 citizens of France, so they cannot be ignored," and Radical Socialist National Defense & War Minister Edouard Daladier had chimed in, "Since a Communist soldier is considered good enough to die for France, I fail to see why there should not be a Communist in the Cabinet. I am sure that all Frenchmen will fly to the frontier, as they did in 1914, in case of menace from abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Far from Ruined | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...School is to be erected at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Kirkland Street on the site of the old Hemenway Gym, torn down last fail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Littauer School's Cornerstone Laid Early Next Week | 3/19/1938 | See Source »

...that the convention will result in politics. We suspect that what the Crimson fears is that the discussion will arouse the latent interest of students to know what is going on. The convention would provide, in the words of the Student Council, "training in the democratic process." What we fail to see is why this is a proof that we are "an angry and jealous minority...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 3/9/1938 | See Source »

...than a painted one, led him ten years ago to a kind of shorthand in which a triangle represented a sail, a jigging line the sea. In his recent work, extremes of this kind have given place to more effective economies: strokes of color and ragged whites which sometimes fail but more often succeed in bringing to life the "fighting" forces of wind, weight, water and light which he feels in landscape. Marin works over each picture with every watercolorist's trick, "scrubbing in" colors with the brush, tipping the paper for even floods of wash, using his thumb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Water-Colorists | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...market, for most contractors still put oil burners in their new houses; 3) Mr. Banfield thinks that making an oil burner may turn out to be a clever way of getting oil burner dealers to carry stokers; 4) In case all attempts to patch up the languishing coal industry fail and it goes completely to pieces. Iron Fireman will not have all of its fuel in one furnace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Inconsistent Firemen | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

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