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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this better than the German people. For the peace treaty of Versailles imposed burdens . . . which could not have been paid off even in a hundred years, although it has been proved precisely by American teachers of constitutional law, historians and professors of history that Germany was no more to blame for the outbreak of the war than any other nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Adolf to Franklin | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...doesn't blame Chamberlain and Daladier for hesitating to join Russia "The Soviet policy has been ambiguous up to now, arguing collective security and deriding democracy at the same time," he stated. He suggested, however, that a Franco-British-Russian alliance would be just the thing to scare Hitler away from further demands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Poland Will Defend Danzig," Claims Karpovich; "War Depends on Hitler" | 5/6/1939 | See Source »

...fact that "cheating and illegitimate tutoring" is a "large-scale commercial enterprise" only at Harvard, the Crimson held the university partly to blame. Reasons: "the worthless teaching and organization in a great number of courses . . . pedestrian lectures . . . the machine-like routine of Harvard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Intellectual Brothels | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...Judith Traherne, Bette Davis is a horsy Long Island heiress with a stable of steeplechasers and a tongue like a riding crop, which she and her friends blame on her unusually severe hangovers. She discovers, from a personable young brain surgeon (George Brent), that her headaches have a more serious cause. The surgeon knows that every day brings her closer to death. Before death comes, on a sunny day at his Vermont farm, Judith knows too, but is convinced that the victory has been hers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 1, 1939 | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...philosophizes: "Life don't work like a job of work. You study out how to do a job and do it. But when it comes to living, they's not any way you can plan it and have it go according." He doesn't blame the Government though. "Our troubles," guesses Farmer X, "is just because we've lived too long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Voice of the People | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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