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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weak power to refrain from adjusting its neighborly relations." The whole Nazi press echoed the Berliner Börsen-Zeitung's charge: "It was Britain who first made the Baltic countries, especially Finland, strategically interesting to Russia by introducing foreign tensions. . . . Never trust the British-when things get critical they leave you in the lurch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Reactions to Aggression | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...diet, women in search of beauty can always get needed vitamins from cabbage, carrots, parsley, apples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Beauty Hints | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Among cheerleaders who were born too soon to get their crossed megaphones: Band Leader Kay Kyser, whose North Carolina cheerios of 1927 set an alltime high note in Southern cheerleading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: All-America | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...Harvard, substitutes or injured players first led this protozoic cheering-either a "short Harvard cheer" or a "long Harvard cheer." At the University of Southern California, prim-collared professors directed the yells. Minnesota was one of the first colleges to elect a "yell marshal." His whole duty was to get the spectators to recite in unison, "Rah-rah-rah, Ski-u-mah, Minn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: All-America | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...transfer Broun stands to lose both money and circulation. Scripps-Howard gave him $39,000 a year, close to 3,000,000 readers. From the Post he admits that he will get "considerably less" in salary, plus whatever he nets on syndicate sales. The Post's circulation is only 252,145, compared to the World-Telegram's 414,759. And some papers that now use his column will undoubtedly drop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Transfer | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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