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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eastern editors were mildly startled last week when they received a dispatch from Ogden, Utah, announcing the election of Marriner Stoddard Eccles as president of Amalgamated Sugar Co. Equally surprised were they to discover that all along he had been Amalgamated's vice president and treasurer. Remembering that the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Old Mormon Custom | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

Getting hold of books is one of the chronic difficulties run into by students at Harvard. Whereas at school one always buys a copy of every book used, at College so many are used that this would be impossible. Therefore, one of the first duties on arriving here is to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: World's Largest University Library Centers Around Widener-Half of 3,600,000 Volumes | 9/1/1936 | See Source »

Having put in a couple of years with FERA, I am not unfamiliar with the ability of governmental purchasing agents to buy up some awful monstrosities on perfectly normal purchase orders. In fact, if TIME will take the trouble to find out, we might discover that Farmer Hughes's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 24, 1936 | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

Rosenberg: "The general ideas of the Roman and of the Protestant churches are negative Christianity and do not, therefore, accord with our soul." Goebbels: "Positive Christianity is humanitarian service . . . Christ himself would discover more of His teaching in what we [lay Nazis] are doing than in [the Church's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Churchmen to Hitler | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

Wolfe's first cinema assignment is to discover who, by means of a gun concealed in a golf club, with a trigger released by impact with the ball, killed jolly old Professor Barstow and why. By the time he succeeds, the picture has unraveled the grim and interwoven biographies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 27, 1936 | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

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