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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your Man of the Year designation is good; but why not double it with Saint of the Year, in the sense in which you sometimes use that word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 12, 1938 | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...other man (or woman) stands out sufficiently in the year 1938 to be honored with TIME'S selection, leave the front cover blank but don't use Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 12, 1938 | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...witness said his company would license its patents to "anyone who wants to use them." Not since 1909 had it brought a patent infringement suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Dull but Important | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...thought up $998,804 worth. Samples : Agriculture can spend $75,000 for a Tropical Forest Experiment Station in Puerto Rico; Treasury, $27,714 to send a Coast Guard patrol boat and one cutter on a demonstration cruise; Library of Congress, $27,200 to show Latin Ameri cans how to use and catalog their libraries, $10,000 to present their 20 Governments with photostats of "fundamental American documents"; Federal Communications Commission, advice on radio problems (free) ; National Emergency Council, two $45,000 propaganda films, one about Latin America for U. S. audiences, the other about the U. S. in Spanish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Caribbean Moon | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...likes to exercise in considering the great work done for the development of intramural sports by the Houses, the fact is startling that over 250 students living around the Houses, are deprived of organized athletic benefits. One reason for maltreatment is that years ago such students were permitted to use P.B.H. as a center and to compete on an equal athletic basis; but the crew turned out by P.B.H. proved so far superior to any House crew that after it had twice won the Agassiz Cup from Yale, its competitive right was withdrawn. Since then idleness on the issue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUTSIDE THE GATES | 12/10/1938 | See Source »

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