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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...read TIME from cover to cover each week. I think I do a thorough job. However, I know that I cannot retain all the facts that I have perused. Therefore, I suggest that on the last page of your paper you run a column of questions relative to the content of the issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 22, 1934 | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

...seems remarkable that the Business School is able to retain the respect and good-will of many of America's leaders of industry and finance when it is so clear to even the immature minds of editors of the CRIMSON and Mr. Satterthwaite that the Business School is simply a school for teaching chain grocery clerks how to make money. But then--the CRIMSON will take pleasure in lumping all business leaders under the name "Big Business" and placing them in the reference file entitled "Material for sarcastic and cynical editorials...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big Business School | 1/9/1934 | See Source »

...Poland is between two strong, non-parliamentary states-Russia and Germany-and is unable to retain her democratic forms. We must adopt a new Constitution, based solely on the President, excluding the party system." Thus read a momentous communique released last week by the "Pilsudski. Colonels," the tight little clique of soldier-statesmen who have ruled Poland for years under the aegis of walrus-mustached Marshal Josef Pilsudski whose whimsy is that he will not be President. For more than two years the Pilsudski Colonels have been drafting Poland's new Constitution, recognizing that Marshal Pilsudski cannot live forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Colonels' Constitution | 12/25/1933 | See Source »

...ought not meekly to accept the opinion of authority on the matter, but they ought to consider for themselves whether the change would in fact involve the dismissal of student waiters. On the face of it, it would seem entirely possible to push forward the breakfast hour, and still retain the waiters. In the first place, a large permanent force of waitresses is on duty in the Union, sharing the work of service with the student waiters. These waitresses could carry on alone after the student waiters had left for classes. Service after 9.00 would very naturally be lighter than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WAKE ME EARLY, MOTHER | 12/20/1933 | See Source »

...indicated that he would pick Cardenas (TIME, April 3), the general has been studiously "doing nothing," having resigned as Minister of War to comply with the Mexican law that no official can be a presidential candidate. Last week Candidate Cardenas not only did nothing but, anxious above all to retain his reputation as a loyal henchman of Boss Calles, he left the Convention as soon as he was nominated, retired to disport himself harmlessly in Aguascalientes, famous for its thermal baths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: God & Go-Getter | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

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