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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plowed into a hillside four miles north of the airport. Investigators searching the aviatrix' room found a note to (and revealing that she had been married three months ago to) Robert A. Elliott, Naval Reserve pilot. Excerpt: "If I have preceded you, do not grieve for me, but be content. Finish your work down here and make me proud of you. . . . And when you come I will welcome you. . . ." Other investigators at Irving, Kan., found that Ruth Alexander, 24, had been married twice before. Her second husband's divorce suit was still pending. Miss Alexander made an unofficial women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: No Lake Landings? | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

...Revere there is always the cry that this city never gets a good play. Judging from the perverse manner in which these same people choose to distribute their patronage, it is little wonder that the producers do not turn the city over to the Mutual Burlesque circuit and content themselves with more discriminating cities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "BIRD IN HAND" | 9/25/1930 | See Source »

...hands of France, Belgium, Italy, Poland, etc. He compared Germany's present condition to that of a U. S. defeated in war, imagining California and Arizona given back to Mexico; Washington given back to British Columbia; Florida returned to Spain. Then: ". . . we would not be willing to rest content under such an outrage and . . . we would take means somehow, someday to rectify that injustice either through peaceful measures or through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Comic: Man or Nation | 9/15/1930 | See Source »

...names of some of the leading Russian writers, musicians, and scientists. Would the Emperor talk about the Japanese Alliance? If so, what was the best thing to say? Was it a thing to mention, or not? Would the speeches be at luncheon or at dinner? Would Baron Frederickz be content with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Diplomat, Old Style* | 9/15/1930 | See Source »

...Manhattan the police department supervises stage presentations, is usually content so long as the actors refrain from outright indecency, has never suppressed a big success from London. In England, official censor of the stage is the Lord Chamberlain, whose critical standards are considerably more sociological than those of the Manhattan constabulary. Last Spring The Green Pastures was denied the right of British production. Reason: since God is impersonated on the stage, the play is sacrilegious (TIME, June 30). Last week the same censor, the Earl of Cromer, announced that The Last Mile, successful death-house melodrama, might not be presented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: No Last Mile | 9/8/1930 | See Source »

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