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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pointedly Mr. Woodrum read the record of Mr. Fish's Grand Tour of Europe's chancelleries last August: Fish's arrival in Oslo in the personal airplane of Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister; Fish's proposal to the Inter-Parliamentary Union of a 30-day armistice for the "four great powers" to settle European problems; Fish's statement that Germany's claims are "just." Mr. Woodrum passed over Mr. Fish's modest willingness, expressed in Berlin, to arbitrate the Danzig dispute personally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Idle Hands | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...series of "Afternoons for Tannin Tipplers." Chief feature of the teas was a tirade against J. P. Marquand '14, who, as author of the best-selling novel, "Wickford Point," which intimately sketched "The Brills," a decadent New England family, was the arch-enemy of the Sophomore's parents and grand-parents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sophomore Steals Out of Stillman to Stymie Scribbler | 10/20/1939 | See Source »

...scooperoo" tale of the grand larceny of a valuable Shakespeare folio and an international search of private detectives appearing in last night's Record failed to rouse more than a perfunctory denial from Widener authorities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TALE OF STOLEN SHAKESPEARE FAILS TO DISTURB WIDENER | 10/18/1939 | See Source »

...monument in the Vosges marks the spot where, in 1914, Grand Rabbi Abraham Bloch was killed while bringing a cross to a dying French officer. Last week Grand Rabbi Maurice Liber, peacetime head of Paris' rabbinical school, now aumônier general for the army's Jews, combed France for Jewish chaplains. Entitled to 48, he could find only 26. The total enrollment of the rabbinical school-twelve youths-was mobilized in the army, but proved insufficiently trained to serve as aumƦniers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Aumoniers | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

This week the doors of Manhattan's garish Grand Central Palace open on the biggest, brightest, costliest annual U. S. coming-out party: The National Automobile Show. For their 40th debut U. S. motormakers have plenty of shiny new models to show, plenty of bright new points to talk about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Motormakers' Holiday | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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