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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miss Pickford did not advocate Lysistrata's classic method...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 10, 1938 | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

...embodied in a question "Is it perhaps not desirable that the bulk of long-time financing of our major American industries should hereafter be done through the issuance of shares of stock, rather than by borrowings through the issuance of long-term bonds?" Taking the railroads as the classic example of an industry weighed down with fixed charges,* he pointed out that when a railroad fails, bondholders suffer just about as much as preferred stockholders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Frank Proposal | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

...what pleased the Prix de Rome jury did not entirely please Mrs. Hailman. Sculptor Keren's classic nudes, she thought, could not gracefully wear those Indian names. So last week before he departed for Rome young Sculptor Koren gave his figures something else to wear. In plaster he added breech clouts to each, crowned each with a feather headdress. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Three Rivers | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

...classic criminal trial in the U. S. is one like that of the late Bruno Richard Hauptmann, a bitter battle of wits in which a prosecutor, inch by inch, weaves a damning web of evidence around a stubborn, close-mouthed defendant. Another kind of criminal trial, hitherto associated with Moscow, was last week proceeding in Manhattan. In it members of a conspiracy stumbled over themselves in their eagerness to confess dastardly deeds, while the only alleged conspirator who did not admit guilt looked as though he could hardly believe his ears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: New Style Trial | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

...MELANCHOLY BABY (Benny Good man; Victor). Classic fox-trot played in the now classic Goodman manner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: September Records | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

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