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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hollered loud enough for everyone to hear that I was going to take the fighters out back and referee the bout. They looked sort of worried and one admittede he didn't want to fight out back. The other thought he saw his chance to stay in the game, and he said he didn't want to fight either...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tom Thorp, Dean of Umpires, All for "Schools of Learning" | 10/28/1938 | See Source »

Another factor, be feels, "is the extent to which it has been possible to set up a real industrial base in Szochuan, sufficient to supply some sort of army in the field. This is naturally linked with other unanswered items such as the condition of the land supply routes from Western China to Russia and to Burma...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fairbank-- | 10/27/1938 | See Source »

...This frequently infers," said Packard, "a subconscious desire to continue the handicap as a sort of insulation against the rigors of competitive college existence. In this regard a stutterer may become his own worst enemy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stutterers Often Continue Impediment As an Excuse, Speech Clinic Concludes | 10/27/1938 | See Source »

...program of production control cannot be blamed for this year's low prices, except insofar as it was not drastic enough in the face of huge carry-overs from the bumper crops of 1937. The necessity of some sort of reduction was recognized even by Hoover's Farm Board in the waning days of McNary-Haugenism. So far, the AAA has operated to the direct advantage only of the nation's farmers. Much has been said of the indirect advantages to the nation as whole; recovery was to arrive on the wings of higher farm buying power. Whatever the validity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WANT IN PLENTY | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

...German Dictator, after talking with Dr. Chvalkovsky and later with Dr. Daranyi, said to them privately that Hungary can get only the same sort of thing as Germany got in the Sudetenland and no more, that is only predominantly Hungarian areas, which would not give Hungary and Poland a common frontier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Hungarian Question | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

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