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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...repatriation program as a flop. Remaining in the U. S. are 120,000 low-paid Filipino farm workers, houseboys, janitors, cooks. Half are in California, 97% are bachelors about 30 years old. "The boys," explained Dr. Hilario C. Moncado, president of the Filipino Federation of America, "do not want to go back without money or assurance they will earn a living." Another good reason is that in some cases boys are loathe to leave a country where, as a California judge remarked (TIME, April 13, 1936), they boast of enjoying the favors of white girls because they are a very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Philippine Flop | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

...Czech people would react in a crisis was shrewdly guessed by Psychologist Dr. Benes, and with perfect confidence he left it to them to mill spontaneously through the streets of Prague in monster demonstrations which finally reached 250,000, shouting and screaming hour after hour "Give us arms! We want to fight! Don't yield a centimeter! Give us Syrovy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: 2,000,000 Sons of Death | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

...20th Century traditional theology has taken a back-seat to political ideology, has not even done much back-seat driving. Reason: theologians, unlike political ideologists, have not known exactly where they want to go, nor how fast. Princeton Theological Seminary's President Dr. John Alexander Mackay, an articulate, lofty-minded Presbyterian with missionary experience, summed the matter up in his "historymaking" inaugural address at Princeton last year: "The new crusading religions (Fascism, Naziism, Communism) . . . are schooled in massive thought systems, which make the average Christians who come up against them feel like infants. . . . The churches must return to theology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Return to Theology | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

BERLIN-Nazi Minister of Propaganda Paul J. Goebbels, tonight declared that the Reich would never "back down" on the Czech problem. Goebbels, addressing a crowd estimated at 175,000, shouted-"We declare categorically and irrevocably that we want the Sudeten Germans and their land returned to us. We will get it, one way or another." Goebbels spoke as Bitier was speeding southward to Munich to confer with the Premiers of Britian, France and Italy on new proposals for solving the Czech crisis peacefully...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Goebbels Won't "Back Down" | 9/29/1938 | See Source »

...calibre of the undergraduate body be surpassed by that of the faculty. You must not fail to understand the implications of the point so superbly stated to you this summer by Dr. Baxter when he said, "Shocking as is the paradox of poverty amid abundance, of millions in want in a land whose productive resources are enormous and capable of enormous expansion, it is no more shocking than the neglect of opportunity for education by thousands of those who are privileged to be enrolled in our institutions of learning, and who have, of their own choice, consigned themselves to intellectual...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 9/28/1938 | See Source »

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