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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pointedly Mr. Woodrum read the record of Mr. Fish's Grand Tour of Europe's chancelleries last August: Fish's arrival in Oslo in the personal airplane of Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister; Fish's proposal to the Inter-Parliamentary Union of a 30-day armistice for the "four great powers" to settle European problems; Fish's statement that Germany's claims are "just." Mr. Woodrum passed over Mr. Fish's modest willingness, expressed in Berlin, to arbitrate the Danzig dispute personally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Idle Hands | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Britain. Last week in the House of Commons Air Secretary Sir Kingsley Wood laboriously reviewed the war record of the Royal Air Force to date: it flew 1,000,000 miles of reconnaissance and patrol, escorted 100 convoys, sighted submarines on 72 occasions, attacked 34 times, made 1,000-mile flights at high altitudes. In cold figures such as Sir Kingsley cited, the R. A. F. last week had about 6,000 trained pilots, about 3,000 first-line planes. But it had, as well, spirit, ingenuity, determination, and a new plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: 72-Hour War? | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

More piqued than panicked by Radio News's doubletalk, U. S. broadcasters last week agreed that the less said about it the better. For the record, CBS's busy News Chief Paul White commented: "So preposterous that it scarcely merits the dignity of an objection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Double Talk | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...Boswell. Because it confines itself by its title, Modern American Painting, in its color reproductions, gives a vivid and telescopic view of the changing U. S. from 1738 to 1939. Biographies of the 68 artists whose work is reproduced help make this book the most complete and authoritative record of the American School...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Giotto to Grant Wood | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...Cohen of the Record: "Harvard will win by three touchdowns to one, unless Penn plays a lot better than last week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five of the Quaker Stars for Today's Game | 10/21/1939 | See Source »

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