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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME credits me with the origin of the Rail Auto Travel Plan. Fact is, various ideas of coordinating automobile and railroad transportation have been suggested for many years but the New Haven Railroad is the first transportation company to devise a plan of this character. Credit should go to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 22, 1938 | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

Nonsectarian, incorporated in 1935, the Federation construes the word "churches" broadly, to mean a group of people with a common aim. The Federation's aim, shared by 20,000 people in the U. S., is to apply the principles of the Sermon on the Mount "scientifically" to modern life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Roycroft to Shine | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

This reckless character broke down as he faced the court-martial. He sniveled: "S'elp me, Hi honly done it to sive a few bob t'buy warm clothes for me wife an' child!"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Tower Court-Martial | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

Stiff was Mexico's reply last week to the stiff note of U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, who demanded three weeks ago prompt compensation for $10,000,000 worth of lands seized since 1927 from U. S. farmers and ranchers in Mexico. To Mr. Hull's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Apparent Failure | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

Like her five previous novels, Monday Night is at its best in creating momentary moods of neurotic tension, in flashes of brilliant writing. Its central character is a comic grotesque called Wilt, a washed-out, oldtime, expatriate newspaperman, middleaged, garrulous, full of stories he never got around to writing. In...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Flashes of Dementia | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

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