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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...common attitude of American Legionnaires was: "No fighting for us off U. S. soil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Contours | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...retained on the squads and encouraged. Two members of this year's Varsity squash team never played before coming to Harvard. Men with some ability who were unwilling to work were cut, on the theory that it is wasteful for the coaches to sow their seed on barren soil. We work with those who are willing to work with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 4/22/1939 | See Source »

...weeks ago, one of Mussolini's newspapers complained: "Mrs. Roosevelt writes too much . . . is a bad influence." From Italy's viewpoint, she surely is, for she cultivates vast areas of political soil plowed and sowed by her husband. Yet in saying, "I have taken no part in politics since Franklin's election" she is not wholly inaccurate. She operates quite apart from the President, behind and beneath what is commonly called "politics." Stories that she influences his policies and appointments are as untrue as stories that he tries to edit her conduct. She is a one-woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: ORACLE | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...greater resources should tell, but the joker is that Hungary would be backed by the Third Reich. The possibility loomed last week for a few short hours that Soviet Russia might come to Rumania's aid, but the last thing King Carol wants is Soviet soldiers on his soil. He might find it difficult to get them out afterward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Killing | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

Month ago the estimated number of Spanish refugees on French soil was 380,000. Last week French Minister of the Interior Albert Sarraut revised the estimate upward to 450,000. Moreover, far from decreasing, the refugee population was steadily increasing. Hundreds were still slipping over the Catalan border. The Loyalist Navy's surrender in French Africa last week brought 4,000 more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Mass Torture? | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

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