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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Never at any time did the Committee issue a "Halt the Hun" poster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 20, 1939 | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...work of the Creel Committee was well absorbed by most U. S. citizens-the younger generation, it has been said, never quite recovered. Not easily forgotten were the Creel Committee's Halt the Hun posters, with their spidery villains; its movies, with riotous queues fighting to see that gory thriller, The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin; its 75,000 spellbinding Four-Minute Men; its Red, White and Blue pamphlets, in which famed history professors rewrote German history; its National School Service (circulation: 20,000,000 homes); its syndicated news (20,000 columns a week), boiler-plate ads, feature stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: CPI | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...other tutoring agency at Princeton is the Hun School which is also a well known preparatory school. It does about as much business as the student agency and gives free tutoring to all its graduates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tutoring Problem at Princeton, Yale Found Small Compared to Harvard's | 4/25/1939 | See Source »

...student agency and Hun each tutor about 175 annually, and the only report of unethical practices was that of a ghost writer in New York who wrote some these last year. A vigorous campaign by the Princetonian combined with the honor system stamped this illegality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tutoring Problem at Princeton, Yale Found Small Compared to Harvard's | 4/25/1939 | See Source »

...typical Calypsonian inspiration was the visit of Franklin D. Roosevelt to Trinidad. Hammering long words into his melody regardless of accent (a Calypso trait), Atilla the Hun - a sober young father, mostly white, of nine children by his Negro wife - sings on a Decca disc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Calypso Boom | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

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