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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stubborn negotiators. As though he were teaching his Bible class in the Center Eaton Methodist Church near Charlotte, Mich., Luren Dickinson piped: ". . . If you have faith, and apply the Golden Rule, you can get together." For two hours his pupils did unto each other as they had been done by for weeks, swapping acrimonies and getting nowhere. The Governor pared his nails, enjoined his guests to have faith, occasionally bent an ear to the whisperings of his omnipresent adviser, "Judge" Emerson R. Boyles. Once Mr. Dickinson burst out at Mr. Keller: "Do you mean you refuse cooperation?" Chrysler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Golden Luren | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...Earl Browder to doff their democratic whiskers was the Russo-German pact and the consequent reaction against the U. S. S. R., in which Franklin Roosevelt shared last week (see p. 15). The Browder speech last week was the first realistic thing which he and his party have done since the Stalin & Hitler marriage of convenience. But Browder and friends, free again to take up their old cries of international class war, down-with-capitalism, etc., were not in an altogether happy position. To portray Joseph Stalin's totalitarian regime as the flower of revolutionary socialism will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Veil Torn | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...contribution to the war, and this, in the opinion of Anthony Eden, "might well be the decisive factor." The so-called Empire Air Training Plan went into gear last week with the arrival in Ottawa of commissions from Australia and New Zealand. Preparatory work had been done by a committee headed by Arthur Balfour Baron Riverdale of Sheffield, 62, one of Britain's biggest, baldest, blondest, bluffest steel tycoons. Heading the Australian delegation was J. V. Fairbairn, Minister of Civil Aviation, a redheaded air fighter of World War I. Chief representative for Canada is Lieut. Colonel William Avery Bishop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: Wings for an Empire | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...could be applied to humans. The scientist dodged these embarrassing queries. A spokesman for him huffed: "Dr. Pincus' work will make possible certain manipulations and experiments which will aid in the study of cellular and biological growth. It is ridiculous to even think that such work could be done with human beings. This work will in no way affect the manner of living or customs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pincogenesis | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Work was of the most informal variety, as members of the ski team came and went working a couple of doer of a time of a compile of weeks at a time. Beginning at the end of August, there was work being done continuously until last week when the finishing touches were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skiers Build Hut In Preparing for Winter Activities | 11/7/1939 | See Source »

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