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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feet of floor space (36.88 acres), 414 miles of steel shelving. It catalogues the important holdings of more than 700 other U. S. libraries, has published about 400 titles of its own, employs 1,055 People, has a $3,000,000 budget. Into it, before he takes office next autumn, will presumably go one more MacLeish opus, a poem on which he was working last week in the Massachusetts hills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Library, Librarian | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...pact with Italy and saboteur of the French eastern European alliance system, urged before the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee a return to friendship with Italy, warned that a Soviet pact would be more dangerous than helpful. Pierre Etienne Flandin, who wired congratulations to Adolf Hitler last autumn after Munich, called for "mediation" with Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: Peace Plans | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

Barney Connett's homemade, one-man pigboat is twelve feet long, weighs 1,000 pounds, was put together with automobile parts and miscellaneous junk at a cost of $4,000, is powered by a battery-driven electric motor. Last autumn, lying on his belly in his submerged sub, Barney Connett bored his way from Michigan City to Chicago (63 miles) in 10 hrs. 30 min. Last week he was testing a two-way radio with two stations on shore. His motor brushes burned out, his craft stalled. "Send out a boat!" radioed Submariner Connett. "Send out a boat before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Saved | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

Recalling that he had last spoken in the Church during last autumn's European crisis the President found as little room for complacent Pollyanna optimism today as there was last September...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Asks 1939 to 'Neglect Tumult of Moment,' Preserve Individuality, in Baccalaureate Sermon | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

Aurelio Giorni: Trio in C Major (Max Hollaender, violin, Sterling Hunkins, cello, Eugene Kusmiak, piano; Musicraft: 7 sides). Interesting contrapuntal work by an Italian-American "musician's musician" who died at 43 in the New England hurricane last autumn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: SYMPHONIC, ETC. | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

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