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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poorly-clad men jogged the elbow of a New York Times Berlin correspondent and whispered: "The German people do not approve of such treatment of the Jews." Bad Neighbor Policy. The harsh, explosive epithets in which the German language is rich, were heaped, together with obscenities, upon Jewish men, women and children in every part of the Reich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: These Individuals! | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...Arab territory constitutes one of the world's last frontiers, with population scarcer than in any .other inhabited part of the globe. Palestine is rich in many minerals, can grow almost any kind of fruit or vegetable, has sufficient water supply. Instead of being overpopulated, it is notoriously undermanned. If as dense as Massachusetts, it would have 5,270,000 instead of 1,300,000 inhabitants. It now supports only one-tenth of the population of Roman times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Divide & Rule? | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...electric charge, neutrons are not affected by the negative electric field outside an atom or by the positive charge on its nucleus. The only thing that stops them, or slows them down, is the mass of the nucleus itself. Hydrogen atoms are almost all nucleus, and so substances rich in hydrogen-such as paraffin and water-are effective neutron brakes. In 1935 Fermi wrote the equation for the slowing down of neutrons by hydrogen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Neutron Man | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...Sunday Citizen was put out by Scripps-Howard's well-established evening Citizen. The new Sunday Journal was published by the 127-year-old conservative Ohio State Journal ("Columbus' 'Good Morning' Newspaper"). The Journal is owned by the rich, powerful, publicity-shunning Wolfe family, which also owns all the remaining newspapers in Columbus-the 1? evening Dispatch, the 10? Sunday Dispatch, the 5? Sunday Star.* Reigning head of this clan is paunchy, big-jowled Harry Preston Wolfe, 66, who is reported to have sworn he would run the Citizen out of town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Papers | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...Spenlove is a garrulous, ironic, goateed alter ego whom William McFee invented in 1920 in Captain Macedoine's Daughter. Last week Mr. Spenlove ambled forth again. As in The Harbourmaster and The Beachcomber, Derelicts is the story of Mr. Spenlove telling a story. The listener is again a rich American woman passenger (this time on a luxury cruise to the West Indies), whose incredible patience really entitles her to be called the story's heroine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Class Romance | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

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