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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recollection is that this land was deeded to the U. S. by France as a gift to this country. If this is true I hope that you will help to correct this malicious falsehood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 6, 1939 | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...deplorable conditions Scully said he found in his new Job. Without consulting his superior he began to correct them. Said he: "When there is a fire I don't wait to get permission to put it out." Inmates of a Los Angeles school for the blind were receiving harsh treatment, said he, from civil service employes. He questioned whether the death of a young inmate of Whittier State School near Los Angeles was suicide, as reported; said inmates were being grossly mistreated and cruelly punished. Last fortnight Dr. Rosanoff fired Frank Scully, later charged that affairs in Scully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Fun in Bed | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Well to the right was her sister Katherine, who married Augustus Van Cortlandt Jr., brought her two daughters out at small, correct debuts, and divided her time between her Manhattan town house and her Mt. Kisco, N. Y. estate. Sister Katherine's only publicity: one false Cholly Knickerbocker rumor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Gibson Girl | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...theories of the late great Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan are correct and World War II is one more struggle between sea power and land power, as the War went into its seventh week the fighting continued almost entirely in the sphere where the Allies are proportionately strongest-on water. Within seven days three submarines, three freighters, three passenger ships and a battleship went to the bottom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: 72-Hour War? | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Marxist economics got its modern prestige from Marx's prophecy that capitalism would go through more & more severe crises, would eventually stall. Parkes shows clearly that the Marxian analysis was correct only up to a point. Marx, for example, harped on only one form of "exploitation," that of the working people by the owning classes; modern experience proves that restricted production (high prices) and frozen capital are chief causes of depression, exploitation of workers, farmers and middle class alike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Constructive Anatomy | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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