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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French Indo-China. Hainan lies uncomfortably close to the French naval base at Saigon and commands the route between British Hong Kong and British Singapore. Hainan in Japanese hands would be the sort of pistol Hitler pointed when he mobilized 1,500,000 Germans to solve the Sudeten problem without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Open and Shut | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...things that has paved the way for the decline of boss rule has been the advent of necessity as a directing power recently become a major factor in American life. Professionalism in social services and trained personnel became a serious problem. Further, the machine was unable to carry on its former ward beneficence in periods of prolonged economics crises...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Marx Sees Decline of Machine Domination in City Politics | 11/4/1938 | See Source »

Labor and "youth-problem" issues will be discussed at a four-corner debate on the political situation sponsored by the Student Union in Emerson D this afternoon at 4 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Union Holds Forum On Recent Political Issues | 11/4/1938 | See Source »

...however, cannot think about such matters for a long time; he loves to contemplate more pleasant aspects of the problem. Gliding, for instance, is pleasant to think about and it depends on wind currents of all sorts. He has always wanted to glide, he has heard and read so much about the sport, and yet he has never actually seen anything bigger than a two-foot model. He knows somebody, however, who knows somebody who has done the most wonderful soaring at Elmira, staying up through his own skill and knowledge of air currents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/4/1938 | See Source »

...college should go far toward solving Yale's housing problem for, like Harvard, the Elis have 400 Sophomores yearly who are not included in the colleges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Plans New 10th Unit in College Plan; Fight Over Architecture Looms | 11/4/1938 | See Source »

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