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...Franklin D. Roosevelt prepared to enroll with Surgeon General Thomas Parran of the U. S. Public Health Service as Founder No. 1 of his National Foundation to Combat Infantile Paralysis (enlistment fee: $1), he found he had no money, was obliged to borrow from Press Secretary Stephen Early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 31, 1938 | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

...ring's official biographer. Every German has heard the War story illustrating Göring's Chivalry. Göring, one of the Kaiser's greatest flying aces and successor to the late great von Richthofen as commander of his famed squadron, once engaged in combat a Danish airman who was fighting for the French. "My machine-gun jammed," the Dane related afterward, "and when Göring saw I was defenseless he flew up alongside, waved a salute, and then soared away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Paladin's Virtues | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

Japan will be further strained in proportion as she is obliged to combat the nationalist government by conquering more and more territory. Will control of the coast be enough? Can she stop half-way in the conquest of China? The tendency will be sooner or later...

Author: By Instructor IN History., | Title: Sino-Japanese Problem Still In Its Infancy, Says Fairbank | 12/16/1937 | See Source »

...Liberal states, very much the "haves" as contrasted to the collectivist "have-nots", must form a "Democintern" to combat the systematic expansion of the Comintern and the Fascintern, Hopper said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cooperation With England Needed to Resist Fascism, Communism, Hopper Asserts | 11/30/1937 | See Source »

...endless, ominous growl of motors, was something the like of which not only Texas but no one else in the U. S. had ever seen before. It was the "P. I. D."-Proposed Infantry Division-which, under consideration for two years, was being tested for the first time under combat conditions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Texas Preview | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

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