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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ostensibly they were calls to employment, but there is no Empire theatre in Whitby or in Whitehaven. And the initials of the names in the first ad spell "Heil Hitler." The second can be read, "Germany will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPIES: No Hari | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Yesterday night, as I was beginning to read, in the French translation, the first chapter of the sixth part of Jakob Burckhardt's excellent work Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien, one of my sons, who is always first to read TIME on arrival, entered my library visibly in a passion and there was in his voice a ring of indignation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 13, 1939 | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...expressed this bitter sorrow of our Christian people. Now, look here, Dad, what this American paper, the very paper we like so much, dared to say against us Brazilians." And presently he stretched out TIME, Sept. 11, and there, almost unbelieving the testimony of my eyes, I began to read, under the epigraphs Latin America, Death for Sale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 13, 1939 | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...comes to all Navy men at 64, often as cruelly and as indiscriminately as Death, retirement last week beached the old Admiral. Hobbyless, Harry Yarnell settled down to read books on the Orient, twiddle his brown thumbs, watch the sailboats off Newport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Beached | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...audience of 300 in the New Lecture Hall, Bert Witt, Secretary of the American Student Union, read the results of the recent H.S.U. poll of 1800 undergraduates, 95 per cent of whom are against immediate American entry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poll Shows That Three-Quarters of Undergraduates Support Isolationism | 11/11/1939 | See Source »

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