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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After listening to conversation between Colonel Lindbergh & President Roosevelt at the White House, Rhode Island's Senator Green told friends that he would "advise any one against planning a trip to Europe this summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Reason & Emotion | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...South China Sea, Japan extended her Spratly Island snatch (TIME, April 10), took a strategic series of reefs 300 miles long. A Japanese statesman said all Japan wanted there was guano (bird droppings used for fertilizer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Rubber-Band Tactics | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

Boston University has lost its only two games this spring, to Rhode Island State, 5 to 2, and to Tufts, 10 to 8. The ragged infielding which partly accounted for these defeats will handicap the Boston team from the start. HARVARD B. U. Johns, 2b rf, Denisvitch Gannett, cf lf, Di Nubla Grondahl, 3b 1b, Rotman Lupien, 1b 3b, Quinn Hoye, lf c, Walker Tully, rf cf, Hardiman Fulton, c ss, Conaty Keyes, ss 2b, Conaty Healey, p p, Hoar

Author: By Theodore R. Barnett, | Title: HARD-HITTING NINE TACKLES TERRIERS | 4/25/1939 | See Source »

...lecture has had a colorful public service career, from his appointment as municipal investigator in 1913 until his selection by Mayor LaGuardia three years ago as Commissioner of Parks. He has held a position of president of the Long Island Park Commission...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROBERT MOSES LECTURES FOR GODKIN FOUNDATION | 4/22/1939 | See Source »

Written around a theme as modern as it is pertinent, "Dark Victory," currently at the Metropolitan, is a powerful production, well adapted to Bette Davis' peculiar talent for portraying the neurotic. As the Long Island society girl who discovers a meaning in life just before hers is snuffed out, Miss Davis gives a brilliant and convincing performance. This study of a woman torn between the routine religious attitude of the Victorian age and the realism of today will appeal to the philosophers in the audience. The way in which certain characters, like the trainer (Humphrey Bogart), are used to symbolize...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/20/1939 | See Source »

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