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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under far more favorable conditions earlier in the afternoon, the Jayvees took the Syracuse boat for the second time this year by an expected length and left the Big Red Junior Varsity and Penn straggled along in that order. From the flying start to the finish the Jayvees rowed their own race and maintained a satisfactory lead over the Orangemen...

Author: By William W. Tyng, | Title: Rain, Sleet, Hail Pelt Varsity Eights as Cornell Crew Snaps Crimson's String | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...OHIO has produced seven out of our country's 32 Presidents. I think that TIME has made one of its few errors in making this statement. Try as I will, I can find only the following six occupants of the White House originating in Ohio. They are, in order of their administrations: Wm. H. Harrison, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, William H. Taft and Warren G. Harding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 29, 1939 | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

About to erect a $30,000 memorial to James Upham in Washington, the Order of Jobs' Daughters of Portsmouth, Va. recently asked Colonel Moss to say that again. Job's Daughters, aged 13 to 20, "band together girls for spiritual and moral upbuilding, to teach love of country and flag . . . home, parents and elders." Just to be sure, he asked Historians Charles C. Tansill (America Goes to War), Bernard Mayo (Henry Clay) and Political Scientist W. Reed West to check up on him. That caution probably cost Patriot Upham a sumptuous monument. Last week Colonel Moss penitently announced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Upham Furled | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...economic, and foresaw that they would be dominated by Germans. Moreover, the two nations promised each other aid in case one was endangered by "national events." That provision could be taken as insurance against civil revolt in either country, but since little Italy could obviously not intervene to "Keep order" in the big German Reich, this provision will, if ever implemented, give the Reich the right under some circumstances to intervene in Italy. To those who have seen German troops, generals, diplomats and agents pouring into Italy during the last six months the treaty seemed final confirmation of what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: No Thank You, Herr Hitler | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...never expects to write another sax chorus such as is contained in this record. He claims that he wrote the equally famous "Stardust" arrangement for Goodman while lying flat on his back from an automobile accident and that Goodman told him to go get cracked up again, in order to get more of the same...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 5/26/1939 | See Source »

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