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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...result if they begin war? Pressure for the repeal of the Neutrality Act has been tremendous, and Congress should act upon that demand at its first chance. Then Germany and its cohorts will have been warned that American will not watch one man steal, without chastisement, the whole of Central Europe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WELL, AMERICA! | 9/24/1938 | See Source »

Petersham, Mass., Sept. 23: With all hands kept busy clearing roads, there has been little time to make a survey of the damage to the Harvard Forest as a whole. However, this whole region has been very hard hit, with extensive areas of timber completely levelled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WIND CAUSES TREMENDOUS DAMAGE IN HARVARD FOREST | 9/24/1938 | See Source »

...many words have been written about the indifference which supposedly breathes in Harvard's "brilliant but cold" Georgian buildings, in the social life of its myriad inhabitants, and in the attitude of the University as a whole toward life and liberalism, that upperclassmen and graduates can only growl feebly when they read them. Like communism the word indifference has a kind of African mystery to it, as thought if analyzed, it might explode in one's face and release snakes and tigers. Really it is the tool of description for those who do not understand a social condition easily explained...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON BEING INDIFFERENT | 9/23/1938 | See Source »

Thus, although 1938 advertising appropriations may be shrinking, sales of radio time are obviously not feeling the pinch. These are taking as large a slice as they did in 1937, possibly larger. Last year, radio as a whole helped itself to about 17? of the U. S. advertising dollar,* running even with magazines, second to newspapers, which got 59?. Of radio's 17?, network-time sales took about 7?. The remainder went for air time sold by individual stations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Money for Minutes | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

MAINE BALLADS-Robert P. Tristram Coffin-Macmillan ($2). Poet Coffin thinks that "the materials for ballads are still being made up every day out of the whole cloth of human nature." This good-tempered, able-bodied collection of folksy poems, is made up out of some State-of-Maine-colored fragments from human nature's rural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Sep. 19, 1938 | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

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