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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tucked off in an inconspicuous corner of many newspapers is a little section called "Ten Years Ago Today," summarizing 24 hours of news of a decade ago and making them sound more remote than the wars of the Medes and the Persians. Because London newspapers are older than most, their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: A Dreadful Havock | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

In the midst of so much detail on the work of unidentified people, all that was definitely known was that under military order police had locked up Loys Aubin, news editor of Le Temps, and J. Poirier, ex-employe of Le Temps, now working in the advertising department of Figaro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: It Is Said | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

Like the majority of U. S. oyster-chewers, Secretary of the Interior Harold lakes has scrupulously eschewed oysters in R-less months. But last week, with the Fisheries Bureau, which believes in year-round oyster-eating, transferred to his department, he let it be known (to the deep satisfaction of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 24, 1939 | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

Up for hearings before the FCC in Washington was a ruling promulgated by the Commission eight weeks ago that had kicked up more fuss than anything in radio since Mae West. In permitting stations to sell advertising time on their short-wave broadcasts to Latin America and other foreign parts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: NABusiness | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

Two days before, Ronald G. Van Tine of the U. P. had been told by a Senator (whom he refused to name) that the President was "hopping mad" over the shelving of his Neutrality Bill, that Secretary Hull was urging him not to send a "forceful" message to Congress. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: President & Press | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

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