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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Attacks on British ships in the 23-month-old war were brought to 60 and the 78th British seaman was killed. The British-owned port at Gandia, with Union Jacks painted on the rooftops, was bombed and machine-gunned in what British Manager Edwin Apfel called a "deliberate brazen attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Brazen Attack | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

On Moscow's Belorussku Station platform last week, a jolly crowd of ambassadors, ministers, diplomats bade an informal farewell to U. S. Ambassador Joseph E. Davies, who was leaving for his new post at Brussels. As the train pulled out. a messenger from the Kremlin rushed up to Mr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Farewell | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

The mountain folk of Kentucky, Tennessee and the Carolinas still follow customs and use much of the lingo of their early colonial ancestors. Though many of them are illiterate, they have handed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation, ballads and hymns that can be traced to Elizabethan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Singin' Gatherin' | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

"Demagoguery." Surrounded by guards, a big, benign, mustached man slipped into the Great Hall of Cooper Union in Manhattan, modestly took his place on the platform before an audience of 1,000, smiled and applauded graduates' speeches. At length Trustee J. Pierpont Morgan rose, picked up a pile of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Commencement | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

Whether or not studio employes, from Greta Garbo to studio gatekeepers, can take their labor difficulties to the National Labor Relations Board has been a controversial subject in the cinema industry since the Supreme Court upheld the Wagner Act last year. Last week it was answered when the NLRB handed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Screen Writers Squabble | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

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