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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since 1935. Communists on Stalin's orders have soft-pedaled the policy known as "The World Revolution Of The World Proletariat," have loud-pedaled the policy known as "The Popular Front." Last week in Moscow, highest Soviet dignitaries and cheering mobs used the Red Square as a gigantic sounding board to loud-pedal World Revolution. Occasion was the 21st anniversary of The Bolshevik Revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Loud Pedal | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...farm, valued at $2,250, and the truck must be paid for over a 35-year period. The Government has guaranteed to purchase all the crops. When asked why electric light has not been more widely installed in Libyan villages, Governor General Italo Balbo explained: "The birthrate is always highest where there is no electric light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Fourth Shore | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

This decision naturally brought whoops from labor, groans from management. Documented by a close-packed, 75-page report, the board's findings were notable for their uncompromising viewpoint and for giving the lie direct to some of management's assertions, particularly that railroad wages were among the highest in the nation. (On the contrary, a report of the National Industrial Conference Board last week put railroad wages below utility wages but well above a composite of 25 manufacturing industries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Flat Findings | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...mansion hard by the swank Oakmont Country Club and is known throughout the Negro world as: 1) publisher of the weekly Pittsburgh Courier (circulation: 145,000), 2) national chairman of the Negro division of the Democratic Party for the election of 1932, 3) former occupant of one of the highest Federal offices ever held by a Negro (Special Assistant to the U. S. Attorney General, 1933-35). His name: Robert Lee Vann...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Black Purge | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

...painted on his boat. The number U. S. 1 is awarded annually to the amateur outboarder who, during the season, has amassed the largest total of points in regattas sanctioned by the American Power Boat Association. U. S. 2 goes to the highest-scoring professional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Flying Shingles | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

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