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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...waging United Kingdom, normally the best customer U. S. has, took delivery of only $31,026,000 of goods-$21,000,000 less than in October, $7,000,000 less than her average for the eight pre-war months. Deliveries on most orders placed since war had not yet begun in November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Dollar Wheat | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...little black Father's well-heeled heavens an altercation had begun to sputter like a fish fry. What started it was a love feast ten long years ago. In 1929 Mrs. Verinda Brown had sat down at the paradisal table set by Father Divine with chicken, ham, potatoes, rice, corn, cabbage, scalloped tomatoes, hominy, carrots, beets, a two-foot cheese, five different kinds of pie, ice cream, and "two cakes as big as automobile tires." After three hours, she rose and cried: "I feel different than when I came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Altitude Record | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Thus an integrated public opinion can be approximated, and an attitude of intellectual curiosity encouraged: For this reason radio is a "tremendous, powerful, and exciting: new instrument whose possibilities have only begun to the explored, Siepmann declares...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Siepmann Denies Propaganda Mission: Warns Us to Avoid Distorted Judgment | 12/12/1939 | See Source »

These amazing statements indicated that Wang Ching-wei had begun to feel himself in a strong position to bargain. Powerful factions in Japan want him installed as head of the "Chinese Government" as soon as possible; last week the Foreign Office Spokesman Yakichiro Suma called on Premier Nobuyuki Abe to urge haste. But even Wang Ching-wei does not trust the Japanese, and he has consistently refused to take office except on four conditions: 1) conclusion of a water-tight peace treaty; 2) return to the Chinese of railroads, customs, native-owned factories; 3) partial withdrawal of Japanese troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Wang to Life | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...peak of his career he visited the U. S., conducted one gigantic concert with a chorus of 20,000 and 100 assistant conductors, was so frightened by the experience that he scurried back to Vienna for good. Seventeen years later, in 1889, a new popular musical movement had begun to sweep Johann and his waltzes into history. It came from the U. S. and it was in 4/4, not ¾, time. The Waltz Kings were succeeded by a March King: John Philip Sousa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Waltz Kings | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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