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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fellow couldn't really stand on thin air or the side of a liner no matter how boundless his affections! Yet he's doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 21, 1936 | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

...That Egyptian piece turned up in Paris very mysteriously," continued Dr. Barnes. "No one seems to know when or how it got out of Egypt. I was thunderstruck when I saw it. The chap who had it had been over to London with it but the British museum couldn't raise the money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: 75th Cezanne | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

...picture was taken by the RA's able Cameraman Arthur Rothstein and had been widely used by the U. S. Press as a sample of the drought in the Dakotas. Of this "gem among phony pictures," the Fargo Forum declared: "There never was a year that this scene couldn't be produced in North Dakota, even in years when rain- fall levels were far above normal. What we see here is a typical alkali flat, left when melting snow water and spring rains had passed. . . . Without difficulty one can find these in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Indiana wherever one chooses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fargo Fakery | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

Last week Superintendent Puffer, who hires Cook County's school principals, fired Principal O'Hearn. Said Noble J. Puffer: "Oh, he was just the kind of man who couldn't keep his hands off people." With school about to reopen. District No. 86 thus was without a principal, three of its five teachers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kissing Principals | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

...other hand, Conner should be elected, he couldn't get in the back door of the White House because he opposed the nomination of the President in the first instance, and Bilbo would be senior Senator and sitting pretty. But the trouble is Bilbo has miscalculated the situation this time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSISSIPPI: Broom or Bilbo | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

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