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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During and after the World War, Mr. Walter Runciman, as he was then, served under various Prime Ministers in such capacities as President of the Board of Trade, combined the Liberal fervor of a Gladstone with tireless practical energy, plus a modern grasp of economics. In 1930, when enormous shipping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Britain-on-the-Danube | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

In Vienna, Otto Neurath headed a group of thinkers known as the "Viennese Circle," who decided that Science with a capital S should have a unified language and should be in fact a unified human endeavor. Out of this grew a series of yearly congresses on unified science, held in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Toward Unity | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

Answering this challenge, President Roosevelt last February published a detailed report of the nation's health prepared under the supervision of Josephine Roche who, as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (1934-37), formerly headed Government health activities. He also called a National Health Conference, which met last week in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Plan & Poise | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

In 1842, the little Austrian Tyrolean town of Salzburg started the summer music festivals in honor of its illustrious son, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. These festivals were attended by the good, pipe-smoking Bürger of Salzburg, by a few hardy music-lovers from nearby Vienna and Munich, by an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Nazi Salzburg | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

In Los Angeles, a nervy adventurer is investigating the mysterious murder of his brother, a reporter. Clues lead dangerously to the Brotherhood of the Judgment, a fanatical sect headed by sinister Father John, whose real name is MacMichael. Sect headquarters are in Barstow. There arrive the architect, the scientist and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Desert Whopper | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

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