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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Diplomatic Front. Still woefully weak in both man power and material, the Finns left nothing undone to get aid. To keep their U. S. reputation as good debtors (which privately they consider highly amusing) they paid the $234,693 installment on their loan. Tickled pink by the League of Nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN THEATRE: Soldiers, Arise! | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

¶ One night, when the hero was proved not to be illegitimate, someone yelled: "Consider yourself unbawstardized."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Wrong Door, Wrong Door | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

But the next day the Black Eagle reappeared with ruffled plumage. This time he was not gloriously alone: he was accompanied by his wife, Essie, orchids on her shoulder. To an attentive courtroom, which included 50 Divine angels, the colonel related how 15 other angels had come to him the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Altitude Record | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

"Man has the time to reflect, to consider, to evaluate-but it may be the duty of woman to abandon herself in her thoughts to the vagabondage of dreams, for we live in a time when we require imagination to see the reality. That is why you must not be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Too Busy! | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Only well-known European language which even remotely resembles the difficult Magyar tongue is Finnish. Mainly for this reason, sentimental Hungarians consider the Finns "our northern cousins." Last week Hungarians were dismayed to hear of the Soviet invasion of Finland. At the same time fear of the Russians came nearer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BALKANS: Southern Relatives | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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