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Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶ Silver-headed Paul Vories McNutt last week reared up on his fine hind legs, revealed that his status as 1940'$ leading If man is causing him considerable pain. Addressing Indiana University footballers, Paul McNutt touched on stories that he is 1) a stalking horse for Mr. Roosevelt; 2...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: 1940 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Altering garments to fit the infinite variety of women's figures keeps a great many people busy; but it annually costs U. S. manufacturers an estimated $10,000,000. Nobody sympathized with them until they appealed to the Government. The Government agreed that something ought to be done.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: No Boondoggling | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

The why of all this the U. S. Weather Bureau explained last week. The U. S. in 1939 had two "extended droughts," one in the spring and an even worse one in the fall. (A fairly rainy summer saved most 1939 crops.) Reported was "the driest fall of record," a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEATHER: Driest Fall | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

"The Christmas celebration in Germanic lands is not an invention of the Christian Church but of our forefathers. The day of the Winter Solstice was holy to our ancestors and the period around the Winter Solstice was filled with the fairyland magic of the Nordic soul. In this period gifts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Christmas | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

The Army and Big Business have tried to get the Führer to move Christmas this year to Sunday, Dec. 24, so that munitions production would hum as usual on Monday, the 25th. Adolf Hitler is an extremely backslidden Roman Catholic, but no fool. He declined to take this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Christmas | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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