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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aboard the bandwagon. Tenderheartedly she said yes, but actually the Governor of North Dakota, she says, beat him to it by several days. Then in 1914 President Wilson issued a National proclamation and the flower stores began to sense the possibilities. Miss Jarvis started her hopeless, 25-year fight against commercialism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Mother's Day, Inc. | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

Rightist General Miguel Aranda, commanding the mud-sodden, zigzag line from Teruel to the Mediterranean, issued a "Fight, rain or no rain!" order but Rightist troops inched forward only five miles to take the town of Portell before being halted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Rained Out | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...Stresemann was a Judas to the cause of Peace, as has been suggested by some students of his diary and letters, Carl von Ossietsky never wavered, said "No!" to friends who had arranged for him to escape to Switzerland before he could be jailed. "If you wish to fight effectively against rottenness in a nation you must do it from the inside," said Ossietsky. "I will not flee abroad. A man speaks with but a hollow voice from across the border...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Natural Death | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...four Jayvee boats will be bidding for victory tomorrow, but again the fight will be between the Crimson and Cornell boats. Two weeks ago both lacked smoothness and a good keel, but after stroke Bill Rowe swept to victory over the Tigers, most observers are betting on the Harvard seconds to take another in their stride...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Crew, Nine in Crucial Tests | 5/13/1938 | See Source »

Championship hopes of two great and powerful crews will be at stake tomorrow afternoon as a Quadrangular Regatta on the Charles climaxes with a desperate fight between Harvard and Cornell and a dismal struggle between Syracuse and M. I. T. over the mile and three-quarters distance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Crew, Nine in Crucial Tests | 5/13/1938 | See Source »

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