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Dates: during 1930-1939
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His first day in Washington was devoted to conferences with Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Roving Ambassador Norman Hezekiah Davis and Chairman Joseph P. Kennedy of the Maritime Commission. Members of the Cabinet hurried up to the White House for their first meeting in several weeks. After the meeting, Secretaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Week at Washington | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

The story thrusts Bette Davis, as the widow of a slain gangster, into a topsy-turvy milieu, in which she becomes secretary to a whimsical and unhappily married lawyer (Ian Hunter) and the one-night bride of a thoroughbred weakling (Henry Fonda). His uncompromising father forces an annulment, the young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 27, 1937 | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

That Certain Woman (First National-Warner Bros.). Warner Brothers paid $25,000 in court costs in England last fall to compel high-spirited Bette Davis to return to the fold after her rebellion against playing an uncongenial part (in God's Country and the Woman), and her demand that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 27, 1937 | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

The members of the Class of '38 departed from camp with pockets full of "pay and allowances," ready to return to college and assume their duties as cadet officers in the ROTC unit this fall. The class of '38 was represented by John Briggs III, Albert E. Brunelli, John F...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Offices of ROTC Write of Busy Summers Passed by Military, Naval Harvardians | 9/25/1937 | See Source »

Men. A favorite won the men's championship as advertised, although there were moments at Forest Hills last week when it seemed that the last big match of the tennis season, between California's J. Donald Budge and Germany's Baron Gottfried von Cramm, might never take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Forest Hills Finalists | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

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