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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Through the Treasury Department, the President assured U. S. miners that the Treasury will buy all silver mined by them up to midnight, December 31 (when the present law expires) even though it is offered to the Mint after that date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Frank III | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

...Congressman's delight, TVA Employe Charles Hoffman testified that he had to forgo a dinner date with his best girl because she used to be Arthur Morgan's secretary, hence might constitute an unauthorized "contact." Upshot was that Dr. Morgan or any other witness designated by Senator Donahey may henceforth talk to TVA employes without hindrance from TVA bosses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER: More Morgan | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

...communications any more; the Temple's mediums were out of practice. When the Temple went through its first crisis, a diphtheria epidemic, Father Swann ignored the advice of the spirit doctor and the spectral Association of Healthfulizers and cast out the Sore-Throat Devil by the up-to-date, scientific treatment of cracked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Table-Rapping Utopia | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

...modernist painting. But U. S. dance audiences were familiar only with romantic ballet and the rose-garlanded capers of "interpretive dancers." Shocked by this backwardness of the U. S. dance, a group of younger U. S. dancers decided that something ought to be done to bring it up to date. To these reformer-minded dancers, sex appeal, pretty costumes, toe technique were not enough. They wanted to express and depict serious things, to comment on present-day problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Assemble | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

...reclining seats. At 2:53 Flight Four taxied out the runway for its take-off for Chicago. As passengers sleepily groped for their safety belts the ship took off. Up it went to 100 feet, then. drunkenly, it began to topple to earth. both motors roaring behind up-to-date full-feathering propellers. Queerly it hit, tail and left wing tip scraping the ground first, 1,000 yards beyond the airport. Like a flash experienced Pilot Walter Bullock cut his master switch to prevent fire. For 200 feet the ship furrowed along, straight for a 75-foot canyon, then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Bad Land | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

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