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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Communist was the Red Army & Navy's avoidance until last week of ranks & titles, hitherto despised by Bolsheviks as smacking of Capitalism. Every Red officer, no matter what his duties, has been a "commander." Last week the Red Army was equipped for the first time with "lieutenants," "captains," "majors" and "colonels"-but not with "generals" since that title still stinks in Communist nostrils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Crystallized Communism | 10/7/1935 | See Source »

...orders Soviet pupils in Moscow, where 72 new schools were completed this year, will be inspected when they arrive each morning to see that their faces & hands are washed, their clothes neat. They will obey their teachers, behave with respect to elders, and show kindness to everyone. Parents, hitherto at the mercy of children who have been systematically encouraged to act as Communist spies and informers upon nonParty adults, were told that they will receive radio lectures on their new parental rights & duties. Lest all this go to the heads of Russian parents, they were warned not to start thrashing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The Old Woman | 9/16/1935 | See Source »

...frantic effort to emulate the All-England Championships at Wimbledon, which are a sell-out every year, the United States Lawn Tennis Association decided this year to try something new. This was to hold the Men's Singles Championship and the Women's Singles Championship, which have hitherto been held at Forest Hills one after the other, at the same time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tennis Triflings | 9/9/1935 | See Source »

Four years in college should open the mind to vistas hitherto unexplored, and broaden the intellectual horizon to an extent unachievable elsewhere. But in the realms served by heredity, environment, and upbringing, where education has little influence, the individual must go his own way, and attempt to solve the age-old problem of his relations to society. The great danger in higher education is permitting scepticism to turn upon problems whose solution requires more than voluminous knowledge, and far more, than intellectual brilliance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HEALTHY SCEPTICISM | 9/1/1935 | See Source »

...Congress of Revolution moved to adjourn, Keynoter Dimitroff urged "Exert your efforts with cunning!" This in the U. S. should take the form of discreet Communist infiltration into labor and religious groups hitherto repelled by Communist bluster, according to Comrade Dimitroff. Mild U. S. Socialists were marked for especially considerate attention by earnest Earl Browder, Secretary of the U. S. Communist Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Ways to Power | 8/26/1935 | See Source »

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