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...Americans love our land as much as Herr Schöttle [TIME, March 20] loves his but we do not have to commit harakiri or rob, degrade and enslave one part of a people in order that the other part may exist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 10, 1939 | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...yard free-style--Won by Sheffield Halsey (P); second, Rob Relcher (Y); third Gordon Mustin (Y). Time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Defeats Tiger To Grab First Place In Swimming League | 3/9/1939 | See Source »

Early in new Poland's life most of the Germans who formerly lived in the Corridor were determinedly eased out and Poles eased in. The Corridor thus became one of the most Polish parts of the country and Germany was robbed of any issue of "self-determination of peoples" there. Last autumn, when Germany rounded up 20,000 Polish Jews and sent them on their way back to Poland, tough and oligarchic Poland retaliated overnight by rounding up a few thousand Germans. Nazi Germany promptly "mediated" the differences. Not only does Poland run its show at home with brutal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Guardian | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Loyalist Foreign Minister Julio Alvárez del Vayo flew from Madrid to France to persuade Senior Azaña to return to Loyalist Spain and thus rob Britain and France of an excuse to withdraw recognition. Long and heated conferences took place in the big, flat-faced brown stucco Spanish Embassy on the Avenue George V in Paris. But Don Manuel, who has been wanting to surrender since the Rebels took Teruel a year ago, flatly refused to leave the safety of Paris. Peace at any price was his line. General Vicente Rojo, Loyalist Chief of Staff who crossed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Favors | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

Although their desire to annoy the skinflint president of the St. Louis Midland Railroad is altruistic, Jesse and his brother Frank (Henry Fonda) rob his trains with ingratiating gusto. No mollycoddle, Jesse James excels modern cinema gangsters in horseback riding, marksmanship and chivalry. He treats his gun-moll (Nancy Kelly) with devotion, and is shot by a traitor while fondly regarding a hand-embroidered wall motto that says God Bless Our Home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 23, 1939 | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

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