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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is the second of a series of four broadcasts of classroom lectures by Dr. Wild and William E. Hocking, Alferd Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wild Will Give Radio Talk This Evening on Idealism | 1/11/1938 | See Source »

...important as Mansueto, and reach the gates of the city itself by Saturday night. At this point, exuberants in Salamanca were proclaiming a complete Rightist victory, publishing detailed descriptions of the relief of the garrison who had doggedly fought for their lives in the Cathedral, the Seminary and the Civil Government Building. Actually the Rightist wave broke at the city gates. Generalissimo Franco, following Leftist tactics in reverse, sent another column cross-country to retake Campillo and Villastar. Thus at week's end the battle moved into its second phase. The snow stopped, hundreds of stranded trucks dug themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Battle of the Nations | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...episodes (each announced by old-fashioned subtitles) parade across the screen the high lights of 26 years (1844-1870) : the panting enthusiasm of the gold rush, mushrooming San Francisco, the lickety-split pony express, the careening overland stages, the Civil War's venomous fratricide, Reconstruction's remorseful hangover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Picture: Jan. 10, 1938 | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...thus occupied, a younger generation of photographers had come along who believed that when Steichen turned his back on painting he had not turned far enough. They saw the camera as essentially a documenter of physical reality. They admired Matthew Brady's diamond-clear, sober pictures of the Civil War, Eugene Atget's photographs of Paris in the early 1900s a great deal more than Steichen's highly lit personalities in Vanity Fair. Steichen's love of lighting effects and studio magic (see cut) seemed to them stagy. Among these photographers were Berenice Abbott. Edward Weston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Career, Camera, Corn | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...immediately procured a restraining order from the State Supreme Court preserving the status quo until this week. Simultaneously Sheriff William J. Hamilton Jr., Mayor Wilson's bitterest political foe, ostentatiously mobilized 160 pudgy deputies "to enforce the orders of the courts." The Civil Service Commission in the meantime opened an investigation of Sam Wilson's action in ordering police to circulate 7,000 "Stop the Gas Steal" petitions, each headed by his signature. Snorted Civil Service Commission Chairman Thaddeus M. Daly: "There are three courses this commission may take . . . ask the council to take appropriate action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fun in Philadelphia | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

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