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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...estimated 25,000 present, at least one-half were women. They do not chew. Only by stretching the imagination could such a mass be described as a "tobacco chewing crowd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 18, 1938 | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

Thrifty Joseph Stalin belatedly bet another blue chip on the Spanish Loyalists last week in the form of ten splendid Soviet warplanes. Tons of other Soviet war paraphernalia have reached the Leftists in the past month via France. Amid wild cheering in recently bombed Barcelona, Soviet war birds in mass formation darkened the sky and last week the Leftist Cabinet reorganized itself for a last-minute effort to crawl between the jaws of defeat and wrench out the tonsils of victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Leftists Reorganize | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

Legion post petitioned the Board of Education to start a junior R. O. T. C. unit in Kenosha High School. A group of ministers quickly objected. Soon mass meetings and fierce arguments were in full swing. Advocates of R. O. T. C. claimed it developed character and physical fitness, its opponents that it bred militarism. The Legion and some civic & fraternal organizations lined up behind R. O. T. C., labor unions and churches lined up against it. The Board of Education lined up on the fence, finally asked the City Council to hold a city-wide referendum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Knitting Warrior | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

...give to form sheets, no one would have been surprised last week when, at the close of the winter circuit, the Professional Golfers Association announced the top money-winners of the season. Leading the field for the second year in a row was British-born Harry Cooper of Chicopee, Mass., never yet Open champion but generally considered the most expert golfer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: True to Form | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

Langdell Scholarships to Rudolf E. Uhlman, of Cambridge, Mass., LL.B. Cornell University '36, now a candidate for S.I.D. Harvard; and Raoul Berger of Chicago, III J.D. Northwestern University '35, a candidate for LL.M. Harvard this June

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 22 LAW SCHOOL AWARDS ANNOUNCED YESTERDAY | 4/15/1938 | See Source »

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