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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Keynes added that British soldiers' pay might be raised similarly, by "the reward of deferred consumption" instead of cash. Instead of more pay now, Tommies would receive savings certificates ("bonus") which, when war ends, would enable them to share in the increase of consumer goods which would then ensue, thus benefiting both themselves and the national economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Stinger's Plan | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Police Chief Heinrich Himmler announced a reward of $320,000 for information leading to apprehension of the culprits, and a private citizen added $40,000. All the world's question: who were the plotters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Eleven Minutes | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Illinois women, led by the League of Women Voters, have long clamored for the right to serve on juries. Last summer they got their reward: the courts upheld the constitutionality of a new law making jury service for women in Illinois compulsory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: No Reflection | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...legged Frank Scully, who wrote Fun in Bed after 20 operations and many years in hospitals, ran for California's State Assembly in 1938 on the slogan, "Out of the Gully with Candidate Scully." Though defeated, he got as reward for supporting Governor Culbert Olson the job of administrative assistant and secretary in the Department of Institutions. His boss was Director Aaron Rosanoff, well-known psychiatrist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Fun in Bed | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Last week, General Sosnokowski had both honor and reward. The President-in-exile, Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, successor to President Moscicki, became seriously ill, named General Sosnokowski as his successor "in case the post should become vacant before the conclusion of peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Refugees | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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