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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arkansas, the Resettlement Administration has planned three "model communities." Most advanced Federal settlement is the Dyess Colony, 18 mi. from Osceola, named in honor of the late State WPAdministrator William Randolph Dyess, killed in the crash of the The Southerner airliner five months ago (TIME, Jan. 27). At Dyess last fortnight 480 neat-looking cropper families gaped at Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, who, beaming with pleasure, addressed a few words of encouragement, shook hands with one & all. Wrote Columnist Roosevelt in her diary, My Day: "They have a community house, a recreation hall, and a small hospital. All of these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: True Arkansas Hospitality | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

...into a school bus, killing the young son of the cop who arrested her for speeding, she takes the blame and goes to jail for murder in the second degree. The denouement consists of Knox's successful efforts to force Jackie to admit his guilt. None of the crash scenes are stock shots. All were made by professional stunt people, strapped in the seats of the cars they wrecked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 29, 1936 | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

Sins of Man (Twentieth Century-Fox). Sad, simple and superfluous, this picture depicts the mishaps of one Christopher Freyman (Jean Hersholt), bell ringer in the Tyrolean town of Zanebruck. Christopher's wife dies, his younger son is deaf & dumb, his elder son gets killed in a plane crash, Zanebruck is wiped out by a war bombardment and, by 1935, poor old Chris is no more than a Manhattan bottle-washer. His deaf son, cured by the roar of guns, then turns out to be a great composer, recognizable to his sire by a symphony, The Cathedral Most lugubrious shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 29, 1936 | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

Horrified at the death of New Mexico's Bronson Cutting in an airplane crash (TIME, May 13, 1935), the Senate started an investigation of the Bureau of Air Commerce, heard its aids to flight safety called "dangerously inadequate" by many an authority (TIME, Feb. 24 et seg.). The best rebuttal of the Bureau was a vote of confidence from more than 1,000 transport pilots. Last week, a subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee disregarded this defense, held the Bureau negligent in the Cutting crash, recommended a drastic overhaul of Bureau personnel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Air Bureau Aired | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

Died. Frank Elliott Ball, 33, son of Muncie, Ind.'s Glass-Jar Tycoon Frank Clayton Ball; in an airplane crash; at Findlay, Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 8, 1936 | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

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