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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German goods only because she tries to get rid of the Jews? Even if a few were killed or got put in a concentration camp last November, it is like one to a thousand compared to the killing of nuns and priests in Soviet Spain, like one to a million compared to Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 20, 1939 | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...Somehow nothing is quite right when one suddenly spends ten million dollars," is a comment made about the Houses by a Harvard alumnus in a new novel by John P. Marquand '15, Pulitzer Prize winner and satirist of Boston's intellectual society...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Author Likes Old Housing System | 3/17/1939 | See Source »

...seven years before that, Tony Galento, who trains on beer and does his road work in kis sedan, had been aimlessly pasting palookas with his murderous left. Since then, however, he has been upsetting set-ups with a firmer purpose-a shot at Joe Louis; a share of a million-dollar gate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Beers and Bums | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...Carl Crow (400 Million Customers), ex-Far East adman, is no diplomatic historian. The career of Townsend Harris interests him for its suggestion of Gilbert & Sullivan, its overtones of the Pandora Box story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Enshrined Diplomat | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...United States, the Export-Import Bank's advance of nearly twenty million dollars of acceptance credit will provide exchange to pay American exporters for unpaid merchandise. Moreover, the large amount of government aid will tend to encourage new American capital investments in Brazil. The pact marks an important step in the development of free trade relations between North and South American countries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMERICAN TIES | 3/11/1939 | See Source »

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