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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friends long ago went to work to climb these big hurdles, many lesser ones. For the U. S.-glacial Sumner Welles, the high-domed Acting Secretary, and once Embassy Secretary to Argentina (1917-19); for Argentina-Señor Don Felipe Alberto Espil, the raven-haired Argentine Ambassador to the U. S., who wears his white-tie-&-tails with the nonchalance of Fred Astaire, who was once the Duchess of Windsor's constant dancing partner, whose barber lets no sign of his 52 years show around the ears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Goodwill in the Pampas | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...spent an hour talking to Iowa's G. O. P. boss, Harrison Spangler, sat up till midnight with Missouri's G. O. P. boss, Barak Mattingly and promised him to speak in St. Louis in October; he shook hands with 200 leading Illinois Republicans; on a high school athletic field he prayed for world peace. Each day he was photographed in every front-porch-campaign pose known to the prosaic U. S. press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: 1940 | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...high went the wreckage in a spectacle unprecedented: bits of old illusions, old securities, old trusts-pieces of Communist doctrine-crumbling fragments of Nazi propaganda-hopeful beliefs of humble people, with here & there a genuine casualty-the time-tested and best methods of dealing between nations, diplomatic usages, conventions, complacency, the Third International, the advocates of appeasement, the believers in Hitler as a bulwark against Communism, the believers in Communism as a bulwark against Hitler, newspapermen, diplomats, intelligence officers, liberals, a skyful of hopefuls lit by the lurid glare of reality. The roar was terrific. Gleefully in Berlin Nazis gazed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: War or No Munich | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Reports of relevant meetings (occasionally denied) became more & more frequent: Hermann Goring, vacationing in Italy, with Soviet Ambassador to Italy Boris Stein, an avowed plugger for the Pact; Franz von Papen with high officials in Moscow, twice; and, three weeks ago,when all was arranged, Italy's Count Galeazzo Ciano with the prospective signer, Joachim von Ribbentrop. Count Ciano went home in a state of high nervous excitement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Realists Have Taken Over | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...unique idea of teaching while you learn, combined with social service work, has been put into effect by the Phillips Brooks House "undergraduate faculty." Last year, the faculty's first, fifty students taught an equal number of high school boys from the lower income brackets subjects they were studying themselves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENT FACULTY TO CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS | 9/1/1939 | See Source »

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