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Dates: during 1930-1939
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A fine thing it is to have a patient wife, four bright-eyed children and $26,000 worth of stock in the bank. But rare is the man who has attained that state on a salary of only $43 a week. One such is kindly-faced, near-sighted Gus Anderson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SERVICES: Pilgrims' Progress | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

If this awakening is the result of the Munich pact and all it symbolizes, as doubtless to a large extent it is, then Munich was a blessing in disguise. But there is still one more hurdle for the President and the people to face: the traditionally isolationist United States Senate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMERICA AND THE WORLD--1939 VERSION | 1/5/1939 | See Source »

Anyone daring to suggest that the German army, perhaps the best disciplined in the world at that time, did not spend all its time committing atrocities was of course "pro-German." Such courageous men as Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh, who tried to remain clear-sighted in the face of hysteria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 2, 1939 | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

Between these last lines can be read the most remarkable career of any young Britisher of present times. The long-sighted rulers of the Empire prefer that a man should show some spark of rebellion, and very definitely of idealism, early. No spark, no spunk. No Character. Eden has Idealism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: From Fitzhardinge Street | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

The author of the communication in yesterday's Crimson expressed the opinion that the plan of the Harvard Committee for Refugees was "laudable" but "short-sighted and unintelligent." His suggestion was that the fund should be used for the daily needs of a great number of refugees, rather than for...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 12/8/1938 | See Source »

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