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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Formidable Mr. Dies further defined what he means by un-American activity last week. Up to then he had occupied himself principally with Communism, less frequently with U. S. Naziism & Fascism. In Manhattan to address the Associated Grocery Manufacturers of America, he broadened his distastes to include "people who were impressed with the necessity to remake society along socialistic lines." Said he to the grocery manufacturers, further defining his aims and his conception of acceptable Americans: ". . . The businessmen of this country must . . . say to the people of the country: 'We have a program, a program that is American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Hero's Week | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...bellicose, able Doris Stevens proposed, founded, organized a certain thing called the Inter-American Commission of Women (a sort of handmaid organization to the Pan American Union). Miss Stevens' job does not pay anything. The commission cannot actually do anything-except find an occasional fact, present it to higher authorities. But since 1933 many a scheme to oust her as chairwoman has been hatched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Bonfire Girls | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Things dragged on. Latin American diplomats dodged the issue many a time until last week. Then Pan American Union's governing board performed a judgment of Solomon. Ignoring both camps, they chose as the new chairwoman lissome Señora Ana Rosa de Martinez Guerrero of Argentina, who has no commitments in either camp and speaks no English, is not expected to visit Washington often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Bonfire Girls | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...good bet that, in pre-Babylonian days, bookies made money. But, without the services of such modern inventions as Western Union and American Telephone & Telegraph, Moses Annenberg could never have made a fortune selling horse-race information. Rented wires are the arteries of his Nationwide News Service and allied enterprises, which have the cream of the business of sending tips and results to bookmakers, sell to many a newspaper and radio station as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Disconnected? | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...Green's rival, John Lewis, has one book to his credit: Miners' Fight for American Standards, published...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Bannerless Man | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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