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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pacts by which each of the Big Four countries would promise the three others not to go to war with them for ten or possibly 25 years; 2) a treaty making the present strengths of the German Air Force, the French Navy and the French Army "ceilings" above which none of the Big Four would raise the strength of its corresponding forces; 3) division of economic spheres of influence by the Big Four, and some ceding to Germany of colonial territory; 4) agreement by the Big Four to renounce and force other States to renounce the use of poison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Big Four | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

Most radio shows laboriously present audience surveys and other statistical mumbo-jumbo to prove to sponsors that they can pull in listeners. None of this was necessary, however, when Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre of the Air was sold to Campbell Soup last week. Week before Mr. Welles had proved that his program had grip when his production of The War of the Worlds and the U. S. radio audience's gullibility had created a national panic. Mercury Theatre will replace Campbell Soup's Hollywood Hotel on CBS December...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Sold to Soup | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

Last week some youngsters in Dayton, Ohio (pop. 217,000) went to Y. M. C. A.s, some to libraries, some idled in the streets, some stayed at home. But none of the city's 34,000 public school children went to school. They were thoroughly instructed by their elders, however, in how to mismanage a city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dayton Dilemma | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...show the Broadway critics puffed last season became a flop, none they panned became a hit. But this season the public has been reversing critics' decisions right & left. In spite of critical praise, Missouri Legend slowly sickened and died. In spite of criticules, Hellzapoppin, consistently puffed by Walter Winchell, quickly rallied, jumped out of bed and took the town. And with qualified reviews, Knickerbocker Holiday has become a success, Kiss the Boys Goodbye a smash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Show Business: Nov. 14, 1938 | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...their campus,--the most beautiful in America, bar none--Virginians take their education in small doses. On the side, they learn a lot about guns and dogs and horses and history and co-eds. They find time to be in the vanguard of those who popularize such dance madnesses as the Big Apple and the Shag, which later ooze northward to fame. They learn how to talk general culture in a drawling, modulated voice that makes what they say sound authoritative. They learn that Richmond is the real hub of the universe. They learn that amatory adventures in parked cars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/12/1938 | See Source »

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