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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...land and sea patrols to isolate the country. Dictators Hitler and Mussolini joined in this round robin of Peace and Neutrality. "They now believe," explained the New York Times's Frederick T. Birchall, that Franco "has enough . . . help from outside to enable him to become master of Spain." Said the Earl of Plymouth, patient chairman of the Non-Intervention Committee: "Our work has not been in vain. ... I am able to say it has been successful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: No Candy Drops | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

...clock: Banquet--Adams House Dining Hall. Speakers: Hon. William L. Ransom, Dr. Isador Lubin, President Conant. Toast master--Hon. Henry Parkman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Today's Events | 2/26/1937 | See Source »

Payson Sibley Wild, Jr., assistant professor of Government, has been appointed Acting Master of Winthrop House during the first half of the academic year 1937-38, it was learned today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Payson Wild to Be Winthrop Master | 2/24/1937 | See Source »

Reputedly suffering from a tropical disease, bluff British Promoter Francis William Rickett, who wangled Standard Vacuum Oil Co.'s short-lived Ethiopian oil concession of 1935 (TIME, Sept. 9. 1935 et seq.), resigned as Master of Foxhounds of the Craven Hunt in Berkshire when his doctors forbade him to ride for ten months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 22, 1937 | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

Newark's "Dr." Harley was called both an osteopath and a chiropractor last week. According to an imposing certificate on his office wall, issued by a diploma mill called the "American Academy of Medicine & Surgery," he is a "Doctor of Medicine & Master Diagnostician." Subscribers to his anti-birth plan submitted photographs of themselves in street clothes and in the nude, and received numbered identification cards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Anti-Birth Insurance | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

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