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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gwynn's Falls Park Junior High School, in Baltimore, has 2,500 students, of whom 50% are German, 30% Jewish. Recently its teachers noticed that a group of boys had taken to signing swastikas to notes passed around the classrooms. They shrugged, wondered what boys would think of to do next. Last week they learned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: H (for Hebrew) | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...cozy office in St. Martin's Lane, London, once saucy Nell Gwynn's bedroom, trooped sober-faced British corporation executives last week. Anxious to comply with the forthcoming Civil Defense Bill, which will require camouflage for factories and public utility works, they came to consult Mr. Frederic Stafford, art director of Stoll Theatres Corp., Ltd. Mr. Stafford heads a group of noted stage designers whose new business is to fool enemy bombers into thinking that a power plant is a church, or an airfield a picturesque village...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Masquerade | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

Several uniformed war veterans walked out in disgust during the speech. Said the American Legion's Pennsylvania Commander Frank E. Gwynn afterwards: "This man . . . mistakes freedom for license. . . . The Moseleys most certainly must be kept from poisoning the minds of America's youth, from organizing the army which Moseley advocated for the overthrow of the Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Moseley Roars | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...Fairmont, W. Va.. James F. Gwynn discovered a reservoir of honey cached by a hive of bees behind his kitchen wall. Ingenious James Gwynn rigged up a pipe line from the hive to his breakfast table, now flavors his hot cakes from a little honey spigot directly above his plate. Chase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 14, 1936 | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

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