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...billboard seems just the right size for the American landscape, while its boldness seems the perfect mirror for the American sensibility. From the sentimental images that sold soap in the 1920s through the stark, wordless Nike billboards of today, this book traces the evolution of a quintessential form of American advertising...
German-Soviet Military Cooperation in the 1920s and 1930s--with Aleksandr Nekrich, Russian Research Center senior fellow. In Coolidge Hall, room 4, at noon...
Prostitution Unbound--Representations of Political and Sexual Anxieties in Soviet Russia in the 1920s--with Russian Research Center Fellow Elizabeth Wood, a history professor at MIT. In Coolidge Hall, room 1, at noon...
...most important of the first Japanese assaults was the invasion of Malaya. The target there was not only the peninsula's wealth of tin and rubber but also the strategic citadel of Singapore. Built in the 1920s and '30s among the mangrove swamps of Johore Strait, at the then enormous cost of $270 million, Singapore stood as the theoretically impregnable naval headquarters of the whole British empire east of Suez. One symbol of the island's true strength, however, was its array of 15-in. guns that could not turn and fire into the supposedly impenetrable jungle behind them. Another...
...gang neighborhood, it might seem natural to form a militia to defend yourself," explains Steve Valdivia, director of Los Angeles County's Community Youth Gang Services Project. Nearly all the state's street gangs started out copying Hispanic "cholo" (lowlife) styles. Scholars trace Hispanic gangs back to the 1920s, when Roman Catholic parishes organized social clubs for children who felt unwelcome at white high school dances. Despite drive-by shootings and drug trafficking, the gangs were tolerated as a "community" issue for half a century. Explains former teen gangster Ysmael Pereira, 48, who is now a gang counselor: "The code...