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The society sent to India one of the most famed missionaries of all time, Isabella Thoburn. For her it named Asia's first college for women-in Lucknow, India. It dispatched to the East the first U. S. woman doctor, Clara Swain. Today the Woman's Foreign Missionary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pious Females Merged | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

Everyone from the White House gardeners to the Secretary of War knew of the impending battle between the Washington Redskins and the New York Giants for the championship of the Eastern Division of the National (professional) Football League. In fact, Secretary of War Harry Woodring, Postmaster General Jim Farley and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Powwow | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

Associate Justice Owen Josephus Roberts of the U. S. Supreme Court last week summoned circuit and district court judges of the Third Circuit to a conference at Atlantic City. There he discussed with them an impending change in the relation of U. S. courts to the U. S. Government.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Insulated Justice | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

Out of Russia last week rolled rumors of another impending famine. Many store shelves in Moscow were again reported empty. Travelers from the provinces said that food was scarce even in some rich agricultural sections. Soviet newspapers had recently criticized the widespread neglect of agricultural machinery, and failure to provide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Another Famine? | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

The Conquerors was an immediate critical success but sold badly. Living with his wife and two servants in a little apartment on the Rue du Bac - four rooms filled with Khmer statuary, Oriental books and hand-painted Persian linen panels on the walls - Malraux remained as secretive in Paris as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: News from Spain | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

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