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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other Latin-American republics, 2) shipping to nations bordering the U. S. via inland waters, 3) shipping by air and sea within the Western Hemisphere, to any port, of mail, persons, personal effects, and goods to be used exclusively by U. S. vessels. Penalty for violations of any major section of the bill was set at $50,000, five years in jail, or both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Phantoms | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Their support was chiefly moral. But more concrete help was on its way to Great Britain from her farflung Empire. Australia, which already had five divisions under arms, organized a sixth division of 20,000 men, named Major General Sir Thomas A. Blarney to command...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: Plans & Progress | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...Women. Not only were Britain's women taking the major part in Britain's social reorientation, they were taking the brunt of it. The men were in the Army or the Government or carrying on in essential businesses, for the time being socially fixed. With the women it was different. Many thousands of British working women found themselves suddenly out of work as business and industry adjusted themselves to wartime conditions. Thousands of maids and nurses lost their jobs, now that so many families were dislocated. Small factories shut down in fear of bombs, although many, particularly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: After Boadicea | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...second stage has begun with respect to tutoring at Harvard. The University has been fully aroused and has now commenced a major offensive against the problem. No one can doubt its business-like intent after reading the details of the new University-sponsored tutoring bureau...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ANTI-TUTORING OFFENSIVE | 10/5/1939 | See Source »

...Major H has been awarded to John G. Wilson '41 of Littleton, Massuchetts, it was announced yesterday by William J. Bingham '16, Chairman of the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wilson Receives Major H For Stroking Crew to Henley Win | 10/4/1939 | See Source »

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