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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...APPEARS ON YOUR COVER ONLY AS TIME'S MAN OF THE YEAR THE CONTROLLED PRESS OF FASCIST COUNTRIES AND THE UNINFORMED OF ALL NATIONS WILL HAIL THE SELECTION AS AN AWARD OF MERIT. WE ASK THAT YOU CONFIRM THE TRUST OF THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST DEMOCRACY BY REFRAINING FROM CONVEYING THIS TITLE AS AN HONOR UPON A MAN WHO HAS DOMINATED THIS YEAR'S HEADLINES WITH HIS CRIMES AGAINST CIVILIZATION...
...Greatest single news event of 1938 took place on September 29, when four statesmen met at the Führerhaus, in Munich, to redraw the map of Europe. The three visiting statesmen at that historic conference were Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of Great Britain, Premier Edouard Daladier of France, and Dictator Benito Mussolini of Italy. But by all odds the dominating figure at Munich was the German host, Adolf Hitler...
...hrer brought 10,500,000 more people (7,000,000 Austrians, 3,500,000 Sudetens) under his absolute rule made him the Man of 1938. Japan during the same time added tens of millions of Chinese to her empire. More significant was the fact Hitler became in 1938 the greatest threatening force that the democratic, freedom-loving world faces today...
...fattest supporting role in Kentucky is naturally that of a hot-tempered, horse-breeding old Kentucky squire. The picture's greatest virtue is that Walter Brennan plays him, chin whiskers and all, as though Peter Goodwin were a real human being, not a stock character. Typical sequence: Peter Goodwin selecting, from a collection of mediocre two-year-olds, the one that has "the look of eagles...
...competitive human world, a common platitude says that a man needs "backbone" to succeed. In the competitive animal world it is different. Scientists have other criteria than fame, money and power for measuring biological achievement. If they were polled they would probably award the gold medal of greatest biological success to the arthropods, a phylum (subkingdom) of invertebrates which includes crayfish, shrimps, lobsters, crabs, water fleas, barnacles, spiders, scorpions, ticks, insects. Reason: The phylum of arthropods (the name means "jointed legs") has the greatest number of species and individuals, occupies the widest stretches of territory and the greatest variety...