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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In the course of his attack on the Constitutionality of the Recovery Act, an attorney for two Texas oil companies had mentioned to the Supreme Court the case of four oilmen jailed for violating a supposed provision of the Petroleum Code. A trial court ruled the provision unconstitutional. The Department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Hip Pocket Law | 12/24/1934 | See Source »

Benton, in his murals and easel paintings, earnestly and almost ferociously strives to record a contemporary history of the U. S. A short wiry man with an unruly crop of black hair, he lives with his beauteous Italian wife and one small son in a picture-cluttered downtown Manhattan flat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: U. S. Scene | 12/24/1934 | See Source »

This unemployment census is the second of its kind, but it represents a much more thorough study than the minor one undertaken in 1930. It is estimated that several hundred thousand persons in Massachusetts are unemployed, and the purpose of the census is to discover what classes of persons are...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD DONATES SHEPARD HALL FOR NEW E.R.A. PROJECT | 12/15/1934 | See Source »

Babes in Toyland (Hal Roach). With the notable exception of Walt Disney cartoons, fantasy is not a form of entertainment in which the cinema excels. Particularly in fantasy for children, there usually prevails a certain horrid condescension on the part of producers who, unwilling to risk inventing fantasies of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 10, 1934 | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

Great curiosity awaits the Shostakovich opera which will be given this winter in three U. S. cities.* Soviets regard the 28-year-old composer as their ablest musicmaker. His murderous heroine is really a lovable young woman driven to her crimes by incompatible bourgeois surroundings. One sample played last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sample Screeches | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

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