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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The attached, received a few days ago, is, to me, a good example of what has come to be known as the British sense of humor.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 13, 1939 | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Why use the word "hitler" to signify lying? Why not use "balfour"? . . . Lord Balfour lied to both his friends, the Jews and the Arabs, promising to each what he could not give to both and what he gave to neither. With the British a lie becomes a terminological inexactitude which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 13, 1939 | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

In that article your Milwaukee correspondent says that the character "John Steele" in my play, To the End of Time, is John Lewis. I merely wish to say that I have no control over anybody's personal opinion. Nor is that particular feature in his report the one that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 13, 1939 | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Through Mr. Jerome D. Greene, Secretary of the Corporation, the Administration of Harvard University has denied the John Reed Society its right of hearing a speaker of its own choice. The John Reed Society invited Mr. Earl Browder to speak at Harvard on "The World Crisis," because it felt that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 11/10/1939 | See Source »

America is in a healthy state. Unlike Nov. 11, 1914 it knows what it wants, and it is going to fight for it as citizens more determinedly than as soldiers. Twenty-five years ago war was something that belonged to a foreign world, certainly not to college. "Harvard Plays Football...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO MINUTES OF TOMORROW | 11/10/1939 | See Source »

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