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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Goodbye To All That" Graves answers some of his critics, prints some of their contradictory letters, gives his own solution for war. Says he: it is impossible to legislate war out of existence, and not altogether desirable, for if it could be controlled it might be fun again. His suggested form of war "falls somewhere between a football match with large numbers of players on each side and an eighteenth-century battle." Rules: evenly matched forces (not more than 5,000 men a side), neutral umpires, short duration (two or three weeks). "The object of each army would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Baudelaire with Loving Care* | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

...Suggest TIME conduct a contest to determine the smartest way it can be done. Conventional books on etiquette are of no assistance to a baby's publicity agents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 9, 1931 | 2/9/1931 | See Source »

...Finland too is faced with a Presidential election in the near future. Finland too has a growing groundswell of political Wetness. And not unnaturally, Finland too last week acquired a Wickersham Commission, officially a "committee of experts to investigate thoroughly the social conditions created by Prohibition and suggest necessary amendments with a view to furthering temperance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FINLAND: Wickersham Björkenheim | 2/9/1931 | See Source »

Enthusiastic manufacturers hope to see 1,000 light planes sold during the year. Conservative observers suggest 500 as a generous figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Schneider Race Saved | 2/9/1931 | See Source »

...improve the situation? It frankly admitted: "More men, more money and more equipment for enforcement would undoubtedly achieve much, but no improvement in machinery will avail without co-operation from the States. This co-operation will depend upon local public opinion." To win that public, opinion the Commission could suggest nothing more definite than "education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Wicker shambles | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

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