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"Ours is a force of defense, not offense. To maintain forces less than that strength is to destroy national safety; to maintain greater forces is not only economic injury to our people but a threat against our neighbors. . . . Our problem is ... to prevent extremists on one side from undermining the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: White House to War | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

In short, the President and Student Council of America's oldest institution of culture are graciously permitting the crowd which their team attracts each Saturday to be canvassed for any loose change that may be lefty in individual Jeans after the purchase of a $4 or $5 admission ticket. The...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton | 11/3/1931 | See Source »

But along comes an Associated Press photo in the picture section of the Sunday Chicago Tribune, Sept. 6. with the legend that "One Charles Chaplin-not ours-is the present champion and has put up a purse of twenty pounds for the winner of this contest." I have accused you...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Letters, Sep. 28, 1931 | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

Willa Cather's two grandmothers, to whom she read aloud from English classics, and a storekeeping uncle who, an Oxford graduate, taught her Latin, were important aids to her education. Her first writing was for the Lincoln State Journal. After she was graduated from the University of Nebraska, Willa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Amen, Sinner | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

New President elected last week, according to the Association's custom of alternating male & female, was a woman: Florence M. Hale, director of rural education in Maine, who succeeded President Willis Anderson Sutton, superintendent of schools in Atlanta, Ga. One of N. E. A.'s vice presidents, she was elected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: N.E.A. Week | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

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