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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week German troops began to pour into the Tatra Mountains near the Polish frontier. Quickly rumors spread that Slovakia (whose autonomy Germany has guaranteed for 25 years) was to be partitioned at once between Hungary and the Third Reich. Poles, keeping a sharp eye on Nazi troops, saw only a flanking threat to Poland in the move, believed that probably Germans were simply fortifying their strategic position (as they have a right to by treaty) for future haggling over Danzig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Czech Jitters | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...essential facts. He has even had a stock interpretation of the facts handed down to him. But he cannot twist this interpretation around to answer questions shot from unexpected angles. So he resorts to building a weak bridge from the question to his stock answer, and then proceeds to pour out what he has memorized. In effect he evades the question...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BLUE BOOK BLUES | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...Korsakov Fantasy on Gershwin Melodies -- Miriam Winslow, Foster Fitz-Simons and Eusemble Warrene Bulkeley Jacqueline Magrath June MacLaren Mary Morse *"Little Women" (Theme and Variations) Tchaikovsky "City Faun" (Satirical Dance Morton Gould *Magnificat (Air for the G String) Bach "Caribbee" Milhaud *"Archangel" (Gymnopedio I) Satle "Frail Woman" (Excerpts from "Pour les Enfants") Tansman "Chromo: American Dance" (Harmonica Player from Alley Tunes) Guion *Polonaise Militaire Chopin *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Score Harvard Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT THE POPS | 5/25/1939 | See Source »

...Bilbo's petition were gathered from 45 States by her Peace Movement of Ethiopia, a repatriationist cult which has its headquarters at her apartment on Chicago's South Side. Bales of letters, cards, X-ed scraps of paper are stacked in every cranny, and more still pour in. Last week some 300 of her followers, who mostly are on Relief (as is she), arrived in Washington by truck and car, so fagged that they could hardly drag themselves up the Capitol steps to hear their friend from Mississippi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Mr. Bilbo's Afflatus | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Instead of snorting: "Slush!" Grumpy (Grincheux) sniffs: "Que c'est moche!" Hit tunes: Heigh Ho, Heigh Ho, Pour chasser les ennuis (Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho, To Make Our Troubles Go), Sifflez en travaillant (Whistle While You Work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Snovit & the Seven Polyglots | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

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