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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Award for 1938. This honor, from a Roman Catholic lay foundation started 15 years ago by Father John A. O'Brien, son of a rich Peoria landowner, was awarded to Thomas Mann (1937), Alexis Carrel (1936), Robert Andrews Millikan (1934), George Norris (1933). It was also awarded to less permanent giants on the national scene: Gerald Nye (1935), Frank Billings Kellogg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Glamor | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...against Poland, Egypt, Suez and Gibraltar. Added" Editor Simms: "A sinister aspect of the report is that Marshal Hermann Göring, hitherto regarded as a moderate in opposition to Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop and [Police Chief] Heinrich Himmler, is now said to favor a lightning war." Meanwhile, scarcely less ominous were actual diplomatic and military maneuverings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: Danger Spot | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...loving Britons will stir less sugar into their afternoon pick-me-up as a result of a half-cent-a-pound increased tariff on sugar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: We Can Take It | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...acting under the command of a higher power [see p. 18], a power within him . . . I dare not tell him to disobey. . . . He won't do it if I do tell him. ... All I can do is attempt . . . to induce the patient to behave in a way less harmful to himself and society. . . . Instinct should tell the western statesmen not to touch Germany in her present mood. She is much too dangerous!" Practical political suggestion by Dr. Jung was for the western statesmen to turn mystic Herr Hitler's attention away from the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Two Diagnoses | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...less formalized one-man or one-clique rule runs another seven of the 16 South and Central American States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Busch Putsch | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

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