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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Barrington pictured Lord Haw-Haw as "rather like P. G. Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster . . . with a receding chin, a questing nose, thin, yellow hair brushed back, a monocle, a vacant eye, a gardenia in his buttonhole." Fancying a creature like this at the Zeesen mike, Britons nowadays consider it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Haw-Haw of Zeesen | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

But the war did not start. Last week, in a paneled room off Independence Square, the directors of Curtis sat down before President Fuller to consider the Plan again. All, including brisk, slender Mary Curtis Bok and her ruddy-cheeked son, Gary Bok, agreed they wanted no Plan that might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Philadelphia Plan | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

The present ruling is founded on a false principle. It assumes that a man taking courses in a subject remotely connected with his own field of concentration will automatically correlate the two fields. In a majority of cases this is impossible without the extra impetus of tutorial, examinations, or written...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRELATION CONFUSION | 11/28/1939 | See Source »

War is a great tester of theologies. To consider and try to answer the hard questions Christians ask themselves in war, some Britons lately began The Christian News-Letter. Among them were the Archbishop of York, Lord David Cecil, Catholic Christopher Dawson, Anglo-Catholics T. S. Eliot and J. Middleton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: What God Is Doing | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

In World War II the British are taking no chances of missing the useful needle among the preposterous straws of the haystack. In the Ministry of Supply an Invention Board has been set up to collect and consider, not only ideas submitted directly to Government departments, but also those sent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ideas for War | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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