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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wanted was a fight with the large, well-trained Polish Army. Führer Hitler chose peace, signed a ten-year, non-aggression pact with Poland. Oddly enough, the pact has been scrupulously observed and Führer Hitler has shown few signs of going back on his word. In fact, Marshal Pilsudski's belligerent tactics, far from being resented, were so greatly admired by the belligerent Führer that even today few Hitler speeches on general Nazi policy in Eastern Europe omit a friendly reference to the late Polish dictator. Often has the Pilsudski method been suggested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Guardian | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Back in Cannes, Dancer Daniels blurbed: "Herr Hitler spoke to me in German, and I don't know what the word for it is but a translator said he said I had marvelous movements of the body and legs, and I guess that meant flexes. He said, 'You are the best dancer I have ever seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fuhrer and Flexes | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Such would be the provision of a half credit for work in American Civilization scattered over a whole year. This would not involve creating a course in the ordinary sense of the word, for work could still be conducted on an informal basis: through discussion groups, seminars, and personal contact between counsellor and student. Alternatively, there could be established a degree requirement of Knowledge of American Civilization--a requirement parallel to the present one in languages. This suggestion might be crucified by cries of Nationalism and Chauvinism, but it is obviously neither of these when considered as an attempt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUT OF THE PAST | 3/1/1939 | See Source »

Died. Dr. Clarke Fisher Ansley, 69, editor-in-chief of the Columbia University Press and of the 5,000,000-word Columbia Encyclopedia; after long illness; in Solebury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 27, 1939 | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...Manual of Investments quoted the stock of the New Jersey Title Guarantee & Trust Co., sixth largest bank in Jersey City, at $974 a share instead of $9. The bank's president, Walter Pennett Gardner, was formerly judge of the New Jersey Court of Errors & Appeals. Last fortnight word began to filter about Jersey City that these were not the only errors involved in the bank's history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONEY & BANKING: Stomach-Ache | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

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