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Dates: during 1930-1939
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General Franco's answer asked the British to explain how the Non-intervention Committee could possibly expect to get an accurate count on Leftist volunteers, since (the note charged) they: 1) are presented with Spanish names and Spanish passports; 2) do not have distinguishing marks; 3) are generally placed at the front; 4) could be hidden among the civilian population; 5) could be assigned to the medical corps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Unpleasant Reading | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

...power and prestige of France, weakened the franc. Next, he rapped Capital for failing to install modern equipment needed in French factories and demanded that these investments be made now, simultaneously with increased working hours for Labor. Finally he promised to reduce taxation of industry to induce business to get going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Hours and Politics | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

...line, as capacious as a 1925 touring car, as comfortably upholstered as a buggy. It concerns itself with the lives of four musical smalltown sisters, the Lemps, three of whom are Lola, Priscilla and Rosemary Lane. Gale Page plays the fourth. What the Lemp girls want and what they get are two different things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 29, 1938 | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

...Nations, urged the League to recognize Germany and Italy as the aggressors in Spain, proposed to end war in the Far East by boycotts of Japan. As the second World Youth Congress adjourned, some of the delegates, who had only one-way tickets, turned to lecturing and hitchhiking to get home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Youth Congress | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

...marks of students in 13 colleges and universities, compared them with the same students' earlier records-high-school marks, extracurricular activities, etc. Some of their findings were trite: that a student who has a good average in high school, or rates high in intelligence tests, is likely to get good marks in college; that a youth who works for part of his college expenses gets lower than average marks, but a determined 100% self-supporting student ranks above the average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Success Test | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

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