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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...More likely: the Soviet Union was going to follow an isolationist policy (almost as bad for the British and French). By turning isolationist it would let Herr Hitler know that as long as he keeps away from Russia's vast stretches he need not fear the Red Army. Russia might even supply the Nazis with needed raw materials for conquests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Maxim's Exit | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...dared try to console him was Pitcher Lefty Gomez. "Hell, Lou." said Lefty, "it took 15 years to get you out of the game; sometimes I'm out in 15 minutes." In the grandstand, viewing all this, was Wally Pipp, now a Grand Rapids (Mich.) businessman. "I know just how he feels," said Mr. Pipp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Iron Horse | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

Adither over the approaching visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (see p. 24), Elzire Dionne, after many a false start, finally selected a gown for her presentation. Color: "japonica" (a rust shade). Jittered Papa Oliva Dionne: "Me, I'm just a farmer and don't know what to wear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 15, 1939 | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...What we propose to do," he declared, "is to study intensively the relatively bright stars of our galaxy [the Milky Way]-as individuals and not as statistical material. We want to know why it is that all the matter in the world is segregated essentially in two forms: stars and nebulae. Why are there no stars which exceed in mass a few hundred times the mass of the sun? Why is it that nearly all stars and nebulae consist of the same chemical elements in roughly the same relative proportions as we find them in the sun? Where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Where, How & Why? | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...suppose the young people today say He hasn't an open mind because He doesn't do things in a modern way. If He did, I suppose they would have girl babies born with hairline eyebrows, purple lips and green fingernails, and I don't know what color toenails; but they are born the same as they were 20,000 years ago. And the boy babies, if God had been open-minded, would be born with one shoulder lower than the other, so they could more conveniently lean on a shovel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: 300 Congressmen | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

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