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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Delighted editorialists hailed this wife-witness incident as a nutshell exposition of the President's free & easy economics,* a revealing display of his ego. It also illuminated a Roosevelt quality little known outside his family: with his own money the President tries to make 59? go as far as most people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Miraculous Conviction | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...even in the minutest detail of equipment. These classes are increasing in great numbers because: 1) one-design boats are cheaper; 2) their racing life is prolonged, since they cannot be outbuilt; 3) the boat is reduced to an instrument (like a tennis racket or golf club) for the display of individual skill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Comets | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

This unusual display of psychological humility occurred during the Association's meeting last week at Stanford University and University of California. The psychologists snapped back to normal with a grandiose report from their Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (of which Dr. Allport is a member) on how to keep the U. S. out of war. Findings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Psychologists & Headwaiters | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

Great Britain, in accord with Anthony Eden's dictum to act tough, has lately adopted the Fascist strategy of muscle-making. Most effective display of bulging biceps was the dispatch of hundreds of bombers on nonstop trips to distant French destinations, flights which more than equaled the mileage to Berlin-as British newspapers were careful to point out. Responsible for the flights to France was Air Chief Marshal Sir Edgar Rainey Ludlow-Hewitt, head of the Bomber Command. Tall, spare, methodical, he is a practiced muscle flexer, for he has commanded the R. A. F. in Iraq and India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Eastland v. Westland | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

...Shortly after TIME, July 24 (with Countess Ciano on the cover) appeared, all Italian newsstands were forbidden to display foreign publications so that they could be seen by the public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 14, 1939 | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

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