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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Growers of dark and burley tobacco, 240,000 strong, last week voted on AAA's proposal to impose compulsory marketing quotas on their crops for 1939. Result: 61.2% Yes for burley, 60.5% Yes for dark, both short of the two-thirds approval necessary for the quota. Since flue-cured tobacco growers and rice farmers turned down quotas last fortnight and cotton is the only major crop that has yet accepted one, for the next crop year AAA's score is one "victory," four "defeats." Result: an increase in the already flourishing crop of pre-Congress AAAttacks, AAAlibis (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Four to One | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

Next day Skobline's wife, Nadine Plevitskaia, a dark singer with tragic features, was questioned at police headquarters. Police found her answers to questions "sometimes reticent, contradictory or inexact." She said she wanted protection, asked to be put up for the night. Finally she was arrested on suspicion of complicity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Trial & Conviction | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

Last week, in the title role of Ambroise Thomas' archaic Mignon, pretty, dark-haired Rise Stevens showed herself to be much more than a run-of-the-mill operatic debutante, sang with mature taste and acted her part with full-blown operatic temperament. For her, even the morosest critic prophesied an expansive future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Debs | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

Chief obstacle to the well-being of these seven counties, as of the rural U. S. generally, was poor schools-dark, dirty, manned by ill-prepared teachers whose time was spread over so many classes that some pupils had only two weeks of actual instruction in a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Bootstraps | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...BEYOND DARK HILLS-Jesse Stuart- Dutton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books of the Year | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

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