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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Disappointment after disappointment would seem to have weakened the League of Nations," went on Mr. Eden, "but its foundations remain. Our efforts may be checked but we are not beaten! . . . What is essential is that we should never abandon our ideals! It is for you and for all of us to champion them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Big Deal | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...they are detrimental to the health of our children, due to the many hours spent inside the theatre, depriving them of their rightful amount of outdoor exercise and rest, and resulting in fatigue, eyestrain and overwrought nerves. . . . Two-and-a-half hours is long enough for any child to remain in a movie." When the delegation left, they had assurance that just such an ordinance as they desired was under consideration. Last week, with the wordy blessing of Producer Samuel Goldwyn tagged on the P.T. A. petition, Chicago's city council set February 24 as the tentative date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Double Trouble | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...about 1953 U. S. expatriate Poet Ezra Loomis Pound, if he continues to compose at his current rate, will have finished his life's masterwork. That masterwork, if its specifications remain unchanged, will finally round out to 100 constituent poems, or cantos. Cantos I-XVI appeared in 1925. Recently Poet Pound passed his masterwork's equatorial line by finishing The Fifth Decad of Cantos- Cantos numbered XLII...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Contra Naturam | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...Democracies all over the world considered highly significant the keynote of the Stuttgart congress of Germans abroad, that (1 Nazis must cooperate with all organizations righting democracy, 2 Germans abroad must remain German first and foremost regardless of citizenship under another flag, 3 Germany would soon begin buying only from fascist nations, 4 all fascist nations must prepare for the eventual war against democracy, 5 state funds would be donated to the Rebel cause in Spain and to the cause of Japan in the Orient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test, Feb. 21, 1938 | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...present system should be changed, because under it the raw material situation in Turkestan may remain unexplored and the forest laws of medieval England may lie forgotten beneath the silt of centuries while the student who would burrow for such knowledge is balked by the carelessness of other Widener patrons. No longer should the four week privilege obstruct the channels of knowledge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INVITATION TO INERTIA | 2/19/1938 | See Source »

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