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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foremost experts, such as Major Timmis, freely admit that under the saddle the thoroughbred has no peer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 1, 1936 | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

Members of Poland's small ruling class admit the people's poverty, the sorry state of Polish capitalism, deplore their inability to do anything about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Dictators Dissected | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

...Francisco's Emily Hardy, who has been a member of her home company since 1933. In San Francisco Soprano Hardy has influential friends and on occasional appearances she has done herself proud. Chief trouble is that she has never developed a sound singing technique. Loyal San Franciscans admit that her voice is unreliable, that her greatest asset is her blonde good looks. Her appearance alone helped her in Manhattan last week.' Many a sensitive listener squirmed while she sang. Frequently she lapsed from pitch. Often her shallow tones were completely lost in the maze of the orchestration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Spring Experiment | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

...Press conference next morning, fuming Secretary Morgenthau announced that he would furnish a prompt answer to Mr. May's challenge. His answer, in a letter to the Finance Committee's Chair man Pat Harrison, was to admit a "possible ambiguity" in his phraseology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: May Over Morgenthau | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

...have the honor to state," he snapped, "that the Italian delegation cannot admit the presence at the Council table of the so-called Ethiopian delegation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: Stall | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

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