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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Norway. A playwright, novelist and poet, Foreign Minister Günther belongs to no political party, like all good diplomats has long cultivated the habit of keeping his mouth shut and his ears open. Unlike Mr. Sandier, he can scarcely be accused of being for or against anybody-yet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: Neutral 13 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Leader of the Labor Party, which would like to get all British industry nationalized as a war measure. It was also intended to ask His Majesty's Government why thousands of miners are still jobless despite a coal shortage, and, finally, why the colossal rearmament program has not yet absorbed 1,400,000 British unemployed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Fight to the Finish? | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...gift to Washington three years ago, spent much time trying to persuade his friend Joe Widener to join him, since their two collections were perhaps the world's finest in private hands. Last time the two met, Mellon vowed, "I'll have you in with me yet." The addition of the Widener paintings and the fine Italian collection presented last summer by 5-10-25? Storeman Samuel Henry Kress (TIME, July 24) would make Washington's National Gallery one of the great galleries of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Brother-in-Law | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...waging United Kingdom, normally the best customer U. S. has, took delivery of only $31,026,000 of goods-$21,000,000 less than in October, $7,000,000 less than her average for the eight pre-war months. Deliveries on most orders placed since war had not yet begun in November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Dollar Wheat | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Contrary to popular opinion, no vaccine, serum or drug has yet been devised that will give immunity, check the progress of the disease, or prevent final paralysis. Most polio workers now believe that the virus enters the body through the nose. Two years ago, Dr. Edwin William Schultz of Stanford University tried to protect 5,000 Toronto school children against the disease by flushing their noses with antiseptic zinc sulfate solution. The experiment, said Dr. Schultz in the new Bulletin, was a flat failure. But doctors still think nasal sprays a hopeful idea, hope some other chemical may prove more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Polio Pamphlet | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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