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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"Boer" is the Dutch form of the English word "boor" in its original meaning-farmer. In the 1830s the Dutch farmers in South Africa decided they would rather live among Zulus and Basutos than live under the thumbs of greedy English traders. Accordingly they set out in oxcarts, migrated inland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Beards and Beatings | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

Androcles and the Lion (by George Bernard Shaw; produced by the Federal Theatre). The old fable of Androcles, who removed a painful thorn from a lion's paw, which caused the lion, when they met again in the Roman arena, to fall upon his neck instead of his limbs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Old Play in Manhattan: Dec. 26, 1938 | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

Thus in a world much burdened with unreligious and anti-religious deeds, the Church-the myriad churches and sects which believe they follow Christ-had become immeasurably greater for what it was than for what it might attempt to do. In spite of its apparent disunity, the Church, alone among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Where Is He? | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

In Chicago, James Roosevelt again denied that his new vice-presidency of Samuel Goldwyn, Inc. had anything to do with the Government suit. In Hollywood, President Harry M. Warner of Warner Bros., who as a patriotic gesture are already producing a series of Technicolor historical shorts, gave orders that hereafter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shorts: Dec. 26, 1938 | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

"The monthly average of industrial production was no in 1937 and it will probably be 85 or 86 in 1938. It now seems likely that its average in 1939 will be about 104. . . . National income seems likely to make a new high record for the recovery period, and to be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Forecast for 1939 | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

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