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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three weeks ago, as the British-French military mission was on its way to Moscow to try to conclude a three-way alliance with the U. S. S. R., another British mission was reported heading for Danzig. No one knew anything about it, except that its leader was a certain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: Nightmare | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

In 1875 a dapper young Negro minstrel-show man named James A. Bland penned these words, wrote a tune to go with them, and launched one of the most perennially popular of U. S. songs. Carry Me Back to Old Virginny was sung so long & loud that 63 years later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Black Stephen Foster | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

The Interstate Commerce Commission approved the merger of the Kansas City Southern and the Louisiana & Arkansas railroads last May, made possible an integrated mid-continent system extending from Kansas City to Shreveport, La., and Port Arthur, Texas.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Brothers | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

Suspecting more than water in the sender's room, the radio agencies ashore reported the whole business to the Federal Communications Commission, which got on the job late, but with the meagre direction finder information available, at week's end had narrowed down its search for the S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: S O Stinks | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

In Detroit last week the startled Appeal Board of the Michigan Tax Commission was confronted with a jungle-like black beard. Hiding behind it was Judge Harry Thomas Dewhirst, head of the famed House of David. Male members of this U. S. cult neither shave nor trim their locks, eat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Dewhirst and Taxes | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

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