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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...referred to the audience as a "tobacco chewing crowd." In approximate figures there were 2,000 in uniform and under military command. These could not chew. There were 5,000 or more school children and 2,000 college students. These do not chew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 18, 1938 | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

Died. Christa Winsloe Homolka, 24, Hungarian actress and novelist (Maedchen in Uniform), formerly the Baroness Vally Hatvany; of blood poisoning; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 18, 1938 | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

...attacked also the practice of uniform bidding on government contracts and urged that a "commission of limited discretionary powers whose objectives are more extensive and more clearly defined than those of the Federal Trade Commission" be established to lay down carefully defined rules for business to follow in these fields...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REGULATION OF TRADE ACTIVITIES DEMANDED | 4/12/1938 | See Source »

Canton Japanese planes bomb military uniform factory near U.S. Consulate General 300 reported killed and 400 wounded--Airdromes, railway stations and marching troops bombed and machine-gunned at many places in Kwangtung, Fukien and Kiangsu Provinces

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...Europe, declared that a continuous push had to be exerted on a body to keep it in motion. Galileo, who shocked cloistered thinkers by making uncouth experiments, concluded that this was not so-that if a moving body was not acted upon by any forces it would continue in uniform motion indefinitely. This was one of the laws formulated by Newton a generation later. When Newton formulated the principle that the force of gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance, he had the key to the orbits of the planets, and what looked like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Exile in Princeton | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

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