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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax was India's kindly Viceroy in Saint Gandhi's brightest days as India's great passive resister. Perhaps in a pinch now, Saint Gandhi would recognize not his inner voice but the voice of Halifax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Empire | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...teeth in permanent caps, her nubile curves seductively displayed. Although her most ambitious job of work since then has been an unimpressive performance in an unimpressive picture called Indianapolis Speedway, Warners' smart young West Coast publicity chief, Bob Taplinger, has made her one of movieland's brightest extracurricular celebrities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 31, 1939 | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...fairly extraordinary personality in anybody's government. A Boer warrior, a British officer who was a newspaper correspondent in Cuba just before the Spanish-American War, an outstanding member of Herbert Asquith's War Cabinet until he organized the catastrophic Gallipoli campaign, Winston Churchill has remained the brightest, most mercurial and (sometimes) most effective member of Parliament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Winnie For Sea Lord? | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...displayed 415 items from the Guggenheim collection. Predominant types: the whorls, jackstraws and disembodied eyelashes of Russian Vasily Kandinsky; the massive, machinelike color patterns of French Fernand Léger; the planetary balls and bubbles, interlocking triangles and color spots of German Rudolf Bauer. It was the biggest, smartest, brightest, most expensive exhibition of abstract painting Manhattan had ever seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Like Sun | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...63rd annual Intercollegiate A. A. A. A. track meet; for the ninth time in 13 attempts ; making the teams of 29 rival colleges look like Sunday School picnickers; with a total of 711/2 points, highest score in the history of the meet; at Randall's Island, N. Y. Brightest individual star, however, was Pitt's long-striding Negro Johnny Woodruff, who won both the quarter-mile and half-mile for the third year in a row, a feat no one had accomplished since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Jun. 5, 1939 | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

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