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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sampled recently by the British Institute of Public Opinion, the British public also spoke kind words; 56% wanted Winston Churchill in the Chamberlain Government; 26% did not; 18% did not say.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Kind Words | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

Oldest U. S. engineering school is Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N. Y., founded in 1824 by Dutch Patroon Stephen Van Rensselaer. Rensselaer, self-styled "birthplace of technology," is fanatically devoted to "practical" learning. Its students (now numbering 1,500) go to their first classes at 8 a.m., rarely knock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Builder | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

Most remarkable fact about John Lockhart was that he gave away most of his fortune (to Pittsburgh hospitals as well as to Rensselaer) anonymously. This month President Hotchkiss wrote to Rensselaer's 11,000 alumni: "It is with sadness that I report his death. . . . Without his gifts the Institute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Builder | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

The 16 Olympians include Albert de Szent-Györgyi, the Hungarian Nobel Prizewinner who found vitamin C in paprika; Wendell Meredith Stanley of Rockefeller Institute, who succeeded in crystallizing a virus; Frits Went of California Institute of Technology, No. 1 U. S. researcher on plant hormones. There is just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Old-Fashioned | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

1.Shell cheap " Travel Dollars" to forign tourists. 2. Barter American manufactures for Brazilian coffee. 3. Dispose of surplus cotton by dumping it abroad. 4. Institute a "Commodity Dollar." 5. Increase tax rates against corporations refusing to cooperate in the social security program.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test, Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

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