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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reporters had already heard about its nature. The State Department had disclosed that it expressed "the earnest hope that nothing may occur to injure the peaceful relations of Finland and Russia," and that U. S. action had been taken independently of that of any other country. If reporters could make no bang-up story of that, it was just because, when diplomats really go into action, bang-up stories are usually misleading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: To the Finland Station | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...Latvia and Lithuania have done, Finnish Chief Delegate Dr. Juho Kusti Paasikivi rolled comfortably into Moscow by train one morning. At 2:30 p.m. Soviet Premier Viacheslav Molotov received U. S. Ambassador Laurence A. Steinhardt who brought from President Roosevelt a personal message of "earnest hope that nothing may occur that would be calculated to affect injuriously the peaceful relations between Soviet Russia and Finland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FINLAND: Active Neutrality! | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...rare," the article continues, "is the work that it will eventually be recovered, but not before 10 or 15 years," all of which will be most reassuring when the deed does occur...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TALE OF STOLEN SHAKESPEARE FAILS TO DISTURB WIDENER | 10/18/1939 | See Source »

Adolescence was a period in life when scrapes and worries that now seem minute appeared to be of cataclysmic importance. In case anyone has forgotten this, there is "What a Life" to bring back those memories, fond or otherwise. Jackie Cooper is the butt of all situations that regularly occur in the average high school. Framed into being caught giving a teacher a "hot-seat", into having his name forged on the pawn ticket for the school's band instruments, though guilty of cribbing in an exam, he blunderingly comes out near the top, even to winning the girl, acted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/6/1939 | See Source »

...advantage which Dr. Fellers claims for his blue crabs is that "struvite" (harmless crystals of magnesium ammonium phosphate which occur in nearly all canned fish products) is not found in eastern crabmeat. Many fish packers are troubled by struvite lawsuits, for their customers crunch the crystals between their teeth, think they have been chewing glass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISHERIES: Blue Crabs | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

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