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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Furthermore, TIME stated that Dr. Kopetzky argued "If doctors were salaried . . . they would not render good medical care, for the desire for money is the greatest incentive in medical practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 22, 1939 | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...greatest significance of yesterday's statement is the fact that the mountain has begun to move. These actions alone are guerilla tactics; they harry but do not destroy. Commercialized tutoring will not quit Harvard because of such negative steps. There has been a beginning only; there must be a great deal more to follow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY ACTS TO RESTRICT TUTORING | 5/18/1939 | See Source »

...year of his greatest triumphs was 1933, when he walked away from the otherwise still-born World Economic Conference in London with the embryo of U. S. recognition of the U.S.S.R. The same year he embarked on a series of non-aggression pacts with every Soviet neighbor except Japan. Scared by Adolf Hitler's "if-I-had-the-Ukraine" line of chatter, he played the game of collective security for all it was worth throughout the dictators' aggressions in Ethiopia, Spain, Austria. Last autumn, the Czecho-Slovak crisis found him again at Geneva proposing joint British-French-Russian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Maxim's Exit | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...care, usually prefer couples around 30 years of age who are in good health, have secure incomes and sunny dispositions and homes. Although there is no rule against giving children to well-settled single persons, the demand for children far exceeds the supply and childless couples have first choice. Greatest difficulty agencies have is discouraging people over 50, who insist on adopting infants. Average age of foster parents, however, is around 40, since most persons wait for adoption until they are convinced that they can have no children of their own. Great- est favorites are golden-haired little girls, around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Chosen Children | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...Army is next best to West Point (or birth into an Army family). His great-great-grand-uncle was interested in coal and coke mines near Uniontown, Pa., where George Marshall was born on the last day of 1880; his great-great-grand uncle was John Marshall, greatest U. S. Chief Justice. Soldier Marshall was a mere first lieutenant in 1916. During the World War he got a temporary colonelcy, a chance to demonstrate his brilliance at staff direction, finally an assignment as Pershing's aide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Marshall for Craig | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

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