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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Personally, we feel that the name of Virginia would appear to far better advantage in a Washington, Baltimore, or Richmond setting than in some of our customary Virginia towns whose identity would still be unknown if it were not for Rand-McNally and an efficient census bureau. College Topics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Case for Commercialism | 5/20/1930 | See Source »

...poor Paris clerks, then the Government of France should act to protect the national interest. Roundly M. Poiret swore that there was only one means by which photostatic copies of his books could have been obtained-burglary, as bold as ever was committed. He filed formal complaint "against persons unknown" before a Judge d'Instruction, who expressed indignation, issued an order bidding the Paris police to "find and apprehend these miscreants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Miscreants | 5/19/1930 | See Source »

...doubt as to what is happening in my own home, I need only turn to the gossip in The Daily Wonder to find all the information I need. It may be the latest remark or action of my daughter? though probably unknown to myself?or the fact that we have changed the decoration of our London house some ten or twelve times since we first occupied it three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Names Make News | 5/19/1930 | See Source »

...fault. Gratifying to clock manufacturers was his statement that the slight variation has some method. Earth would, said Dr. Brown, run fast for a number of years, then lag behind. Sudden changes in rotation rate were noted in 1897 and 1917. Causes for such behavior are unknown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Philosophical Convention | 5/5/1930 | See Source »

...ground, and they could not lift them up again. After this nothing happened." But, says Author Linderman, when the U. S. declared war against Germany, Plenty-coups urged his young men to enlist. The Government recognized his patriotism, chose him to lay the Indian wreath on the Unknown Soldier's grave at Arlington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Aborigine | 5/5/1930 | See Source »

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