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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Would it not be a gracious thing for the President to do-a beautiful custom to originate-that the President resign a few weeks or months before the end of his term of office (say, on Christmas or New Year's day or even on Thanksgiving) so as to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 17, 1939 | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

> In the seven years in which he has consistently outrun other milers, Glenn Cunningham has run a mile under 4:10 at least eleven times, has once (on Dartmouth's board track, year ago) unofficially beaten the world's record of 4:06.4 by 2 seconds. This consistent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 17, 1939 | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

Last man to hold and deserve this emeritus distinction was Elihu Root, who was Secretary of War under McKinley and Roosevelt I, then the latter's Secretary of State and died (aged 91) in 1937. Now, as in no other period of U. S. history, there is a dearth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Extend? Revise? Junk? | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

Scattered British warships hastily steamed out of Mediterranean ports for unnamed stations and the British fleet at Malta was warned to be ready for instant duty. Leaves were cut short. Admittedly a French-British "naval demonstration" in the Mediterranean was under way and blunt notice was expected to be served...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: MADMEN AND FOOLS | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

Those who heard Dr. Charles A. Prosser's lecture on "Secondary Education and Life" last night will be forced to reconsider what they mean by "education." "Nothing could be more certain," he said, "than that science has proven false the doctrine of general education and its fundamental theory that memory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STREAMLINER | 4/15/1939 | See Source »

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