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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over a period of nearly 20 years the Antwerp Bell Telephone Co. alternately hired & fired Leo Frenssen, an able telephonic technician but about as dependable as the late Count Leo Tolstoi, whom he mystically resembles. Once Leo Frenssen was an enrolled member of the Belgian Communist Party. He resigned with the declaration: "I am convinced that Communism is now the wrong theory-I am for peace, and I believe that every conflict can be settled peaceably if some imagination is used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Technocratic Victory | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

Despite its enormous, secret circulation (lately rumored around 3,000,000) and its equally impressive profits (which FORTUNE reported at $418,000 in 1935), the Digest and its owners, DeWitt and Lila Bell Acheson Wallace, still have nightmares when they think of one thing. What if other magazine publishers stopped allowing Reader's Digest to reprint their articles at any price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Indigestion | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

Sheriff C. G. Bell identified the dead as Willie Wynn, Harlan County election official, Sherman Howard and Odell Sizemore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Dead in Kentucky | 11/9/1938 | See Source »

...hume it Mae Concearn: This is to sertify that Annie Bell Bowden is living with 8 th husben. Mother and father's home at Moorehead, N. C. Mother name Mary Elizer, Father Willie Henry Nobles and she was the mother of twenty one (21) children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: 8 Husben | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...husben that I am living with now name Henry Bowden, Cumbland, M. D. making a total of 8 husben. Yours truly, Annie Bell Bowden. Her age is 87 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: 8 Husben | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

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