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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Oct. 23, appears the phrase, "a radiogenic actor." There will be a small fee of $.04 ($.05 in Canada) for each use of this word for the first ten times, the rate thereafter being $.03 per adjective. . . NORMAN CORWIN...
Japan's little Premier, Nobuyuki Abe, is a definition of inconsistency. His breakfast begins by being Japanese (bean soup, pickled eggplant, rice) and ends Occidentally (soft-boiled eggs, a glass of milk). His house (suburban, neither big nor small) is typically that of a Japanese military man, but is cluttered by a very unmilitary hobby-scores of canaries and red sparrows in pretty cages. Premier Abe drinks a little but not much, smokes a little but not much, exercises a little but not much. He is a general, but he has never been...
Paris of the East. Small wonder it is that the lobbies and bar of Bucharest's famed Athénée Palace swarm night & day with as conniving a group of spies, agents, buyers, diplomats, eavesdropping newsmen as ever inhabited a Grand Hotel. On the twisting Calea Victoriei-less than 20 years ago a thoroughfare distinguished for its dust in summer and its mud in winter-intriguing Frenchmen rub shoulders with scheming Germans, plotting Britons encounter counterplotting Russians...
Spokane, Wash. (U.P.)--The collegiate spirit prevailed when small towns that dot the inland empire were first named. Across the Idaho-Washington state line in heavily timbered country are seven tiny villages, named by a group of college students. Their names are Wellesley, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Pur due, and Stanford...
Looking back on those days, it is hard to believe how the storm gathered force, how a quiet country slowly swept on towards hatred and war. The beginnings were small, and the end so terrible. But the beginnings added up. Then as now, the men at the top of the hierarchy, the college presidents and the ministers raised the war-cry. The change from indifference to raging militarism was the work of a few months...