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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Statesman Munters, conversing easily in Russian with Statesman Stalin, noted the Dictator's expansive natural charm, coupled with earthy peasant shrewdness and no trace of being a Communist intellectual. Mr. Munters, knowing how many abstruse, voluminous Communist tracts have been printed with Joseph Stalin as the author, tried to draw him into intellectual discourse. Invariably J. Stalin's rough and ready ideas, questions and replies had to do with quick facts, not theory. His queries about Latvia, Statesman Munters was distressed to find, showed an all but complete lack of knowledge of the facts of Latvian history, since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: Two Nots | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

...annually, Hollywood's highest writing stipend. Soon thereafter he went on leave to try compacting two more ideas into three acts each. In the tortured and tortuous mental life of his hero Sterns in To Quito and Back, friends of Playwright Hecht thought they saw more than a trace of autobiography...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 18, 1937 | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

...into the hands of the attendant. Three books he wanted. In time, which we hestitate to define in its Widenerian concept, he was informed that there was no report of them. Then the Widener Beast sat up on its hind legs, smoothed its scales, and smilingly queried, "May we trace the books and send you a card?" The spider could no better entice the fly. "Please," our tutor answered. Every month now he returns to the lair with the same three cards and receives the same benign reply. But the Beast has never sent him a card. Some thirty times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 10/14/1937 | See Source »

...chosen as his subject "China Faces Japan," in which he will trace the historical background leading up to the present struggle in the Orient and the aims of both sides...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gardner Lectures Over WAAB Tonight on War in Far East | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

Abbott P. Usher, professor of Economics, will trace the commercial and industrial history of the United States since 1760, dealing especially with the problems of public policy in the tariff, rail-roads, and the great industrial corporations. The class will meet in Emerson A on Thursdays at 5:15 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXTENSION COURSE | 10/6/1937 | See Source »

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