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Miss Brittain, whose latest book is "Honorable Estate," was a nurse during the war, and has since been actively associated with peace groups. Describing herself as only an observer and "no expert on international law," she traced in her lecture the decline of the anti-war reaction after the war...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VERA BRITTAIN SAYS WAR NOT INEVITABLE IF PESSIMISM CEASES | 11/23/1937 | See Source »

Ramadan begins with the first slivery appearance of a new moon (this year Nov. 5), ends with the next moon. During the days of Ramadan - a day begins the moment it is possible to distinguish a white thread from a black one by natural light - no good Moslem eats, drinks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Ramadan | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

Some of the characters who people these sequences include a sardonic anthropologist named Dr. Thumb, who involves himself joyfully on Trolley's side; Newshawk Kilgallon, Trolley's satirical, hard-drinking crony, a World War hero and onetime child prodigy singer who has been trying to commit suicide since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Denver Don Quixote | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

In Tokyo the younger, more fanatic school of Japanese militarists fumed last week that their Empire ought to defeat Soviet Russia first, objected that the whole concept of dealing with Nanking before Moscow has been settled is strategically and politically unsound. This Japanese younger school sees Stalin as ultimately behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-CHINA: Another Kuo? | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

What raised his spirits was a telephone call from the Esterbrook brothers, who were in Washington to arrange a $64,000,000 Government loan to save their shaky railroad empire. They had the okay of the F. R. A. but needed one from the Federal court in their own district...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Practical Politics | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

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