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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trickster, a hypocrite, a liar, a backstabber and a would-be dictator were among the various things that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was called last week when he announced to the House of Commons that his Government had recognized Franco Spain. Few predecessors had ever taken such a verbal licking on that floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Dirt In Vain! | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

Since the first explosion reverberated through the world's laboratories, the fission of thorium, as well as uranium, has been demonstrated. Atom-wranglers at Columbia University have shown that, under various conditions, the fission of uranium yields krypton, strontium, iodine, xenon, tellurium as disintegration products. The flood of reports made it appear that atomic physicists are off on the biggest big-game hunt since the discovery of artificial radioactivity was announced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Big Game | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...various jobs made possible by this new fund have been applied for by a large number of undergraduates. Some men will work in First. Michigan where one of the six works caused of the American Friends' is located; while others will be gives professions in the tenement districts of New York City...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: P.B.H. Institutes New Fund For Financing Summer Work | 3/11/1939 | See Source »

...meeting open to the public, the educators will discus helping students to understand their environment, organization of summer camps, training in reading, social studies, and various scientific subjects...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1000 EXPECTED HERE AT TEACHERS' MEETING | 3/9/1939 | See Source »

There is little jealousy, explained Miss Sothern, between the professional women in the business. Although, a few years ago, there was cut threat competition among the various strippers, today that has almost abated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Real Art Required to Be Burlesque Stripper, Georgia Sothern Explains | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

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