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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Poland for months has been lambasted daily by radio from Germany, but the broadcasts reach comparatively few Polish ears. Despite a money-making radio monopoly, Polskie Radio, in which the Government has a 40% share, Poland is not a radio-minded country. Of the estimated 1,000,000-odd-listeners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Battlefield | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

As Bramwell Booth aged, the Army grew more prosperous but less productive. In 1929 his subordinates finally ousted him after a bitter legal battle, elected Chief of Staff Edward John Higgins as General. In 1934 the Booth dynasty was revived with the election of masterful, hawk-nosed Evangeline Cory Booth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Democrat for Autocrat | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

More than that, Cleveland-born Elizabeth Morrow is a well-educated woman. She studied at the Sorbonne and in Florence after graduation from Smith and has teaching experience. She taught in U. S. private schools for several years before she married in 1903. Modest and amazingly catholic in her interests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Morrow for Neilson | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

Now eager as a dog on the scent, the professor returned to Harvard, wrote in the Alumni Bulletin that if any generous alumnus provided him with a suitable boat, he would be glad to pilot the donor over Columbus' whole route. Alumni and three foundations soon gave him a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: After Columbus | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

Off for Tasmania last week with 225 rubber balloons, large tanks of hydrogen and a short-wave radio receiving set sailed hoary-headed Robert Andrews Millikan, pious physicist of the California Institute of Technology. With him went two brilliant young colleagues: Physicists Henry Victor Neher and William Hayward Pickering. For...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Millikan to Tasmania | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

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