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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, having just returned to inactive status in the Army Reserve (after looking over aircraft production facilities for the Air Corps), Charles Lindbergh could say what he pleased. His associates in the War Department guessed enough of what he wanted to say to ask him not to say it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Hero Speaks | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

Advance indications are that the enrollment of the University as a whole, including the eleven graduate schools as well as the College, will vary little from the figure of 8,583 of last year. No large changes are looked for in any department.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thousand Freshmen Will Sign Names Today in Memorial Hall, Attend Talk By President Conant in Union Tonight | 9/22/1939 | See Source »

Propaganda was a questionmark, with Hollywood evenly divided between plans to capitalize on War headlines, and plans to make traditional escapist pictures. Samuel Goldwyn announced Blackout Over Europe; Warner Brothers, who fired the first shot this year with Confessions of a Nazi Spy, announced a string of comedies. Charles Chaplin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shellshock | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

Lacking the gutty foreignness that flavored the Odets play and disguised the too-literal symbolism of its situation, Golden Boy is saved from sinking into a slow-moving dialect melodrama chiefly by the freshness of its new male star. Curly-topped, ingenuous-looking Actor Holden was picked from Paramount'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 18, 1939 | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

> Following the U. S. State Department's restrictions on transatlantic travel (see below), Pan American changed its European terminals to Foynes, Eire instead of Southampton, Lisbon, Portugal instead of Marseille. Same time, pleading "extraordinary demands upon the United States . . . services," Chairman Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney sought CAA permission to double...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: War Travel | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

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