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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question of U. S. neutrality in a dark and dangerous world to the first legislative rank (see p. 11), all ears pricked up in solemn attention when the President came to this ticklish problem. Said he: "First, we decline to encourage the prosecution of war by permitting belligerents to obtain arms, ammunition or implements of war from the United States; second, we seek to discourage the use by belligerent nations of any and all American products calculated to facilitate the prosecution of a war in quantities over and above our normal exports of them in time of peace. . . . "Peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: State of the Union | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

...Merriman is also planning to obtain a film which the Museum of Modern Art is producing. It deals with the history of the Motion Picture Industry, and will be shown in connection with the art exhibits...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the House | 1/10/1936 | See Source »

Students who desire copies of the examination schedule will have to obtain them from University Hall this year since no copies have been released for publication...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXAM SCHEDULES | 1/7/1936 | See Source »

...will be possible to translate mountain observations, such as those taken on Mt. Washington, into data for free air at the same altitude in many different localities. It will be no longer necessary to take expensive airplane flights to obtain this data...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCHELL'S FINDING WILL AID IN SECURING WEATHER DATA | 1/7/1936 | See Source »

...reason that Britain suspected then and now knows for certain that Egypt, once inside the League, would scream bloody murder for the British to evacuate Egypt. Ethiopia was at first barred. Then Ethiopian statesmen, largely inspired by Prince Tafari, began yielding deceptively to French and Italian efforts to obtain more important concessions in the empire than had ever been granted before. In 1923 the French and Italians congratulated themselves that a most profitable and pleasant era of Latin-Ethiopian co-operation and economic exploitation was about to open with mutual goodwill. To top off the deal with pink icing. Ethiopia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ETHIOPIA: Man of the Year: Haile Selassie | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

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