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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first outstanding speech in nine years in the Senate, admitted that the U. S. might well forget neutrality to "track Hitler down and hang him to a sour apple tree." But he warned that this hunt would cost millions of lives, while Hitler might have died a natural death meanwhile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Brass Tacks | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...Summers are all right . . . but winters-thirty-five below! Drifts twenty feet deep! A man can freeze to death up here as easy as holding out his hand. . . ." Act III-"People were up all night. You could hear 'em coughing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALASKA: The Valley | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Blitzkrieg, 72-hour shock, or heartbreaking drawn-out death struggle, who would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: 72-Hour War? | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...Ithaca, N. Y., death from malnutrition came to Caesar, baby porcupine, born by Caesarean operation performed last June by a State Conservation Department official after his automobile had killed the pregnant mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Information | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Transcendentalists complained that he was too practical ("Strictly speaking," said Henry, "morality is not healthy"). Religious folk called him an infidel ("One world at a time," said Thoreau when a friend came to his death bed to talk about the next world). "Practical men" called him a dreamer and escapist, were annoyed at his criticism of their pioneering ("a filibustering toward heaven by the great western route"). Poets thought him too science-minded, his language too earthy. Conservatives thought his Civil Disobedience revolutionary ("I do not care to trace the course of my dollar . . . till it buys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Realometer | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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