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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foretold, growing to 22,000 by 1870, 89,872 by 1900. Georgians who were not Atlantans had a saying: "If the folks in Atlanta could suck as hard as they can blow, they would suck the ocean up to their city limits and have a harbor!" At its vital crossroad, inland Atlanta actually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Crossroad Town | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

John M. London '41 undergraduate chairman, summed up the objective of the conference as being "to give every man who wants to have an integrated, well-rounded concept of the world an opportunity to discuss the very vital subject of propaganda from as many viewpoints as possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THIRD CONFERENCE ENDS AFTER PROBE INTO PROPAGANDA | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...committee, according to the resolution passed, "recognizes as vital traditions of the University these rights which the University must construe as limited only by the limitations imposed by constitutional rights on citizens of this nation. These rights are to be exercised freely and without fear of reprisal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Committee for Academic Freedom Formed; Adopts "Bill of Rights" | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

...Finns, carrying the war to Russian soil as the conflict enters its third week, were reported without confirmation to be striking toward Russia's vital Leningrad-Murmansk railroad, lying 55 or 60 miles across the eastern frontier...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 12/14/1939 | See Source »

...Navy, operating out of Russian and Estonian bases, first seized the four small, unfortified islands-Hogland, Seiskari, Tytär, Lavas-which had figured in Russia's pre-war demands on Finland. Farther west, to protect the vital Aland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN THEATRE: 36-to-1 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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