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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spanish nightmare of recent months has been fear that Germany and Italy would exact participation in a European war as return for their participation in the Spanish war. Last week the Soviet-German Pact gave Spain a perfect out, which she was quick to seize. How could Spain fight hand in hand with Communism, which she had spent three years stamping out? Last week General Francisco Franco took steps to insure absolute neutrality: closed Spain's border with France, hastened demobilization of his troops, dissolved surviving branches of his General Staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: White, Not Red | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...together in groups get to know one another personally," wrote Dr. Noble in the Collecting Net* last week, "even where there are no sexual or individual external differences which the human eye can distinguish. [They form] social hierarchies. One fish can strike a second fish without being struck in return, and the second has the same right of 'passing the blow' to a third individual. These . . . 'pecking orders' owe their existence not to strength but to psychic factors, such as the period of residence in an area. . . . Many fish devote most of their energies to trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fish Society | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Problem's keynoter was the Rev. Guy F. Hershberger of Goshen, Ind., who declared: "Industrial coercion in any form, whether peaceful or not, is not scriptural.' It usually leads to violence." His proposed solution: a "return to the farm, where our people were always happy and successful," backed by a development of rural cooperatives and a church-financed program to purchase farms for young couples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Return to the Farm | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Result of this story was to get Joe Graham fired. Other newspapermen, almost as indignant as Joe, got him a publicity job with a small county fair near Cleveland. Last week Joe Graham paid City Hall a return visit, searched in vain for Reporter Griffin, curled up on his favorite bench and went to sleep again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Napster | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

After retracing part of Columbus' first return voyage to Lisbon, they will set sail across the Atlantic from Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain, following his third voyage as far as Trinidad, then go to Honduras to pick up his fourth voyage. They expect to end their expedition in Haiti, February...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: After Columbus | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

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