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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offered his Union of democracies as the logical challenge to this threat, showing that 15 Atlantic democracies, excluding South-American nations, can control both hemispheres by creating a stronger bond of administration and sentiment between these countries which are already similar economically and ideologically. "And for the government of this Union, why not use the one constitution in modern history which has really worked--the American one?" he asked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWSPAPERMAN STREIT ADVISES DEMOCRACEES UNITE IN PEACE MOVE | 5/5/1939 | See Source »

...that he has a mistaken idea because we in San Francisco had a similar fiesta prior to the opening of the Golden Gate International Exposition. .. . There were more sore faces per San Franciscan than possibly in the whole U. S. and after the fiesta was over, barbers did a land-office business getting faces and hair back into shape again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 1, 1939 | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...similar stunt was staged at Manchester College in North Manchester, Ind., where undergraduates conducted a fake broadcast of a European war so realistically that one student not aware of the hoax fainted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Peace Day | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...himself with an old maid and her maidservant that they make him a permanent guest, even stealing liquor from a neighboring store (the heroine, a member of the town's temperance league, can't buy it publicly) to keep him contented. News that a notorious criminal, of similar description, has just escaped from a neighboring jail disturbs the old maid somewhat, but she reflects that "it is better to be killed by a man than to live without one." The police, on a house-to-house search for the robber of the liquor store, frighten the innocent tramp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Radio Opera | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

Under the leadership of Thornton F. Bradshaw '40, President of the Advocate, the literary magazine was the first to join officially into the campaign against tutoring schools begun by a similar announcement of the CRIMSON last week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADVOCATE DENIES TUTORING SCHOOLS ADVERTISING SPACE | 4/28/1939 | See Source »

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