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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan the World-Telegram (Scripps-Howard) flayed the interview, refusing "to believe that American justice has sunk so low that it must go begging and bargaining for such help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Brisbane's Coup | 3/21/1932 | See Source »

This means that 500,000 housewives have full time or part time jobs. Ridiculed by the Soviet Press, a "housewife" is now a Russian woman who has sunk so low that she stays at home, ignoring the clarion call of the Five Year Plan to "Work! Work! Work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Liquidated Housewives | 3/14/1932 | See Source »

...fast playing and good passing, the Crimson courtmen took the lead early in the game and at the end of the first half the score stood 20 to 14 in favor of the Freshmen. In the second half the St. Anselm team sunk a number of goals and brought the score up to 20 all. With only two minutes to play and the score still even J. A. Fitzpatrick '35, playing left forward, sunk three foul shots bringing the Freshman out ahead. R. G. Fletcher '35 was the high scorer of the fray with a total of eight points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN HOOPSTERS EDGE FIGHTING ST. ANSELM'S 23-21 | 3/9/1932 | See Source »

French strategists say that these forts can maintain a cross-fire amid which no army could advance or so much as a rat live. Sunk deep in Mother Earth, the forts are supposed to be able to withstand indefinitely the most powerful bombardment, the heaviest bombing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Hornet & Pal | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

...sent out from Vancouver to hunt for the treasure-hunters, missing somewhere in British Columbia. Meanwhile Captain Sydney A. Cornwall, master of the Baychimo, arrived in Fairbanks and revealed that the fur cargo had already been salvaged by crew and natives, that he was sure his ship had since sunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Flights & Flyers, Feb. 29, 1932 | 2/29/1932 | See Source »

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