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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must give the cattle a chance to put on fat,' said one of the President's visitors to him yesterday. The advice was in answer to the question Mr. Roosevelt is frequently asking these days : 'What can I do to revive business?' And, noting the simile and its wisdom, no one doubts that Mr. Garner was its utterer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Pitching in a Pinch | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

...this point the jury remembered to ask Mrs. Hebner whose, if not her husband's, was the corpse in her cellar. To this Mrs. Hebner had no answer, but she gave the jury interesting ground for speculation by relating how one day, when she had found Will Hebner beating a cow to death with an iron bar, he had explained that it was the same bar he had used to beat the life out of a St. Louis storekeeper named William Hite on Nov. 10, 1935. It seemed that for Will Hebner a murder was of no more moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Cupid's Messenger | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

...What is the City? How has it functioned in the Western World since the loth Century, when the renewal of cities began, and in particular what changes have come about in its physical and social composition during the last century?" The first 300 pages of The Culture of Cities answer these questions. In the medieval town, focused in a church and market square and bounded by a wall, "one was either in or out of the city; one belonged or one did not belong." If one belonged, one also belonged to an association, religious, trade or craft. The city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Form of Forms | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

Last fortnight the Soviet film industry released its official answer in the U. S. An arresting character study of Nikolai Lenin during the last days of the Provisional Kerensky Government Lenin in October went far out of its way (but never off the present "party line") to convince U. S. cinemaudiences that Stalin was Lenin's fair-haired boy, that Lenin trusted him much more than he did "idiotic" pessimists like Trotsky, "traitors" like Leo Kamenev, Grigory Zinoviev. With youthful, black-browed Stalin standing stolidly at his right, puffing on a Hawkshaw pipe, Lenin (Boris V. Shchukin) addresses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 18, 1938 | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

Follows this COLLEGIATE DIGEST behind-the-scenes story for an answer to "what makes a popular song popular...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: It's the "Plug" that Counts! | 4/13/1938 | See Source »

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