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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anyone daring to suggest that the German army, perhaps the best disciplined in the world at that time, did not spend all its time committing atrocities was of course "pro-German." Such courageous men as Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh, who tried to remain clear-sighted in the face of hysteria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 2, 1939 | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

Harold LeClair Ickes lived in Winnetka, a leafy lake-side suburb of Chicago, for 17 years before Franklin Roosevelt made a national character of him as Secretary of the Interior. If Professor Charles E. Merriam of the University of Chicago were less absentminded, he might have advised his friend Mr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Winnetka's Ickes | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

A Christmas Carol. (Fri. 9 p. m. CBS). Orson Welles plays Scrooge in a dramatization of Charles Dickens' fantasy.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Programs Previewed: Dec. 26, 1938 | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

Spies and Drugs. In 1916 Philip Musica got out of jail with a suspended sentence as a reward for helping to untangle his own swindle. In the meantime he had gone to work as a stool pigeon for District Attorney Charles S. Whitman. He soon was engaged in German spy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: My God, Daddy! | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

At week's end the case was still full of explosive possibilities. Investigation of McKesson & Robbins' activities involved a brace of Connecticut politicians and Congressman Wright Patman. Executive Vice President Charles F. Michaels was revealed to have unloaded $118,500 worth of common stock a month before the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: My God, Daddy! | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

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