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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Declared the New Zionists: "The fact that 80 Jews were murdered and hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of Jewish property destroyed under a British Administration should not be allowed to pass quietly. . . . British quarters have announced the stoppage of the strike through the medium of a declaration by General Dill in command of the troops in Palestine. The terms of this declaration are probably without precedent in British history. In fact they concede to the Arabs belligerent rights accorded to each other only by sovereign states at war with each other. General Dill has actually conceded to the Arabs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Indignation | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...sailed down the middle of Bishop's Avenue hating the whole performance like poison, for I loathe so to treat a car . . . potholes a foot deep are everywhere. . . . Cars with orthodox springing, even of the best kind, shake the teeth in one's head as they pass over Bishop's Avenue. . . . Ghastly thuds sounded beneath the car as the road wheels rose and fell, but the classic shape of the well-known radiator in front of me scarcely pitched. And watching my rear passengers in the driving mirror, I never once saw them leave their seats; they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Swank | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...without outside help, and gifts to the average institution in the same period dipped from $156,992 to $29,945. First lesson Fund-Raiser Tamblyn hopes every school executive will derive from Now Is the Time is that if he wants his school to revive he had better start passing the hat. Second lesson is that he had better hire a professional to pass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hat Passers | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...continue to dawdle through college only to find the shift to a graduate school equivalent to a step into another world. It is time that Harvard adopted a flexible policy geared to the various abilities of its many students, instead of to the slow speed of the underprepared, bare-pass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EACH ACCORDING TO HIS POWERS | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...postponment. Born in Ohio, he worked on farms during summer. Student at Baldwin University in Ohio Northern Indiana Normal School, he taught science during intervening years in order to continue school. In 1883 he received a law degree from Valparaiso University, but had to teach another year to pass law library. He was one of the senators to vote against America's entry in the war. Republican in name only he threw aside partisanship years ago, supported Al Smith and Roosevelt, thrust his seamed face and jutting jaw and untrammeled thinking into making a fight like that over the purchase...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPOTLIGHTER | 11/14/1936 | See Source »

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