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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Actor Welles was bom May 6, 1915, under the sign of Taurus ("The Bull" -April 20 to May 20). Says American Astrology's character delineation of the child of Taurus: Personality: "Fond of . . . the finer-things in life. . . . Eyes large, face broad, body heavy set and inclining to be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 23, 1938 | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

Man and Sealyham. Last November the Museum of Modern Art held an exhibition called "Paintings for Paris." The eminent artists invited had been allowed to send their own choices. The show as a whole was a dud, unrepresentative, swank and dull. Nothing better indicates the quality of the Paris exhibition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Demonstration | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

In a recent pair of editorials entitled "Classical Doldrums" the Crimson has shown that it is not bound by the old prejudice that education should be founded primarily on a study of the Classics. Instead, this newspaper is typically American in its blind attachment to the prejudices of its readers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 5/18/1938 | See Source »

The applause which greeted these sentiments was equaled next day when General Motors' President William S. Knudsen rose at the general session to relate G. M.'s troubles with labor and its effect upon business. Excerpt: "The Industrial Union in its present form has to depend on force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Hymns in Washington | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

Jig, a line gang boss on a railroad electrification job, tells the story in his own words-a wisecracking lineman's lingo in which an angry character "arcs," gets "hotter than a wet switch''; a nosey one gets "ideas his head ain't insulated for." Like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Electrified Romance | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

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