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Dates: during 1930-1939
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If ham-fisted Congressman Martin Dies had been able to call Orson Welles's Martians before his Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities he could not have extracted a more lurid story than he got last week. Witnesses testified in all seriousness to their belief in:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTOLERANCE: Boo! | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

No Communists were produced by the Dies Committee. They apparently existed only in the vast credulousness of some people like a Manhattan socialite named Dudley Pierrepont Gilbert, who had nothing better to do after he lost his money (but not his wife's) in the depression than to organize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTOLERANCE: Boo! | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

This week the State Department refused either to confirm or deny the authenticity of General Krivitsky. The Soviet Embassy said it had never heard of any such person. The New Masses stuck to its guns. The Dies Committee invited the general to Washington. The Post, pleased with all the publicity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: You Are Shmelka Ginsberg! | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

At San Francisco's Golden Gate Fair: ex-Governor Alfred E. Smith was proclaimed Mayor of Treasure Island. Cracked he: "What we need in this country is good old-fashioned 'come-outside-and-put-me-out' Americanism." Others: Congressman Martin Dies (to harangue a patriotic meeting), Diva...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 15, 1939 | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

In No Time for Comedy Olivier is cast as the author of a drama about a youth who supposedly dies fighting for Leftist Spain. The boy's scientist father, comforted by "messages" from him, turns spiritualist. The boy turns up, unrecognizable because of face wounds, commits suicide rather than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATRE: Show Business: May 8, 1939 | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

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