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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Main feature of baseball's annual predictions is unvarying from year to year: they are always wrong. Certainties of the forthcoming season last week were exactly two: 1) in 1937 players, managers and umpires will get more money out of the game than they ever have before; 2) in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baseball: New Season | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

So saying he proceeded to cement international good will by a few kind words and topical references. "We [Canada & the U. S.] have the same definition of what constitutes greatness and goodness in human character. . . . We give our admiration and affection to the same type of leadership. Will anyone deny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sofa Soliloquies | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

The Autocrat is the story of a German steel tycoon, a character suggesting Krupp, who comes to the conclusion that his heirs scarcely deserve to inherit the vast works he has built up and it must go to the stalwart Nazi workmen who have toiled for him all these years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Law on the Screen | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

When Donald MacDonald, 20, and Tod ("Speed") Morgan, 21, turned up on the broad beaches near Culver City and Beverly Hills a few months ago, they were just two handsome young men from the East, seemingly bent on harmless fun. As such they soon met a number of boys and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Culver City Nest | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

Last week the curious fortunes of Apollos Smith and his son came to a curious end as Son Phelps' will was probated in the courtroom at Malone. With the exception of a $100,000 trust fund for several servants and relatives, Phelps Smith's $10,000,000 estate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Apollos' Fortune | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

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