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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Biographer Pringle thinks that a little more patience and steady thinking on Roosevelt's part might have averted all the discomfort. But he shows also that Taft became more & more conservative as the years passed, that he never had T. R.'s energy nor his intuitive understanding of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Just Man | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Fifteen months later, a battered, be draggled ghost ship, the Wolf again dodged through the British blockade and limped home to her base. Of all German raiders she had outlived all but one.* She had cruised 64,000 miles, through every ocean and most of the British patrols of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Terrible Tub | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Through rivet holes in an after bulkhead new prisoners were shown neat stacks of barrel-sized mines; adjacent were the powder magazines. What would happen if a mishap or an enemy shell touched that hold was something they all thought about, seldom spoke of. Other anxious moments came as they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Terrible Tub | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

After 260 pages of ingratiating and painful romance, in the reliably glamorous Civil War-Reconstruction setting, Heroine Emily Fenwick settles down to her real business. That is, for 700 pages and 60 years more, to live out the whole vast length of her life, the trivial with the towering, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ladies'-Book | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Before he left Friday morning with his Crimson booters to meet Princeton Saturday, Carr demanded that the schools adopt "a plan for physical education and recreating which will include all of the school children."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Athletics for All," Asks Carr In Bid for Election Tomorrow | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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