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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...save these island industries from extinction at least until the Independence year of 1946. As an original sponsor of Philippine Independence, Maryland's unpurged Millard Tydings had talked it over with Franklin Roosevelt, agreed with him that the islands could not stand too sudden a shift from free trade with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work of the Week | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...phase of the investigation concerns Teachers College's management of Lincoln's G. E. B. endowment. Terms of the grant leave T. C. free to use the money as it sees fit for experiments in elementary and secondary education. But Lincoln's parents and Dr. Flexner hold T. C. to be morally bound to use it for Lincoln School. They were shocked to learn that T. C. had spent part of the endowment for research not connected with the school, for salaries of professors nominally but not actually on Lincoln's staff. It was estimated that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Lapsing Lincoln? | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...Star had been given the use of the Winnipeg Free Press's newsstands for the day. A special plane had left Minneapolis, 435 miles to the south, loaded down with copies of the early edition. Under an eight-column headline the Star played the story, written in advance, which it had worked so hard to promote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Quick, Warm Gesture | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Purpose of the grant: to start 1,200 healthy women volunteers on a five-year course of free, thorough, semiannual pelvic examinations, to detect any signs of early cancer of the uterus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer Volunteers | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...training as a lawyer? Why do political partics allow vestiges of Jim Crowism to hang on within then? We may be equalitarian, but Negroes can't vote in many parts of the country; we may be democratic, but how many hotels allow colored guests; we may be free, but why do most talented Negro artists live in virtual poverty? Why--why --why--over and over again the words to the song din that question into the cars of those who have listened to it--why a people must be submitted to the physical and moral subjugation that makes its songs...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 6/2/1939 | See Source »

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