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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defence and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest. I believe that the purposes for which I and my fellow-soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 20, 1939 | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...land, the end of all arguments came last week. After his sister-in-law's shooting, he was looked on askance by many a citizen of Mound Bayou. One night last week somebody shot him from ambush. John Thomas, Mound Bayou's marshal, declared the shooting was done by persons unknown. All he knew was that Old Man Booze was dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSISSIPPI: Booze Is Dead | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...himself is recognized as the greatest technician on the alto sax in all the surrounding territory. His "Flight of a Bumble Bee" is often done so fast that it gets done about two seconds before the people at end of the hall have begun to hear it. Drummer Buddy Schutz and trombonist Don Matteson are two of the best. Besides having a marvelous classical background, one of tenor saxman Herby Haymer's joys in life is to work in things like "Hymn to the Sun" in arrangements of "Liza"--also making faces that only a mother could love...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 11/17/1939 | See Source »

...pointed out that the group was formed seven years ago by a number of University students interested in learning more about dialectical materialism and wishing to use it as an "academic tool". As has been done all during its history, the Society today, with its 35 members, is run primarily for purposes of study...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seidman Stresses John Reed Society's Neutral Political Views, Aims | 11/15/1939 | See Source »

These neatly done bits of artistic wit show the sly, amatory advances of a curiously-moustached music teacher on his attractive young pupil. Our keyboard Casanova is just in the act of kissing his pretty protege when the raised piano-top, behind which they are hiding, expresses its disapproval by solidly falling on the heads of the two lovers. At the sound of the crash, an irate father rushes upon the scene and sternly reprimands his daughter for her licentious behaviour. Meanwhile, our fallen Caesar forsakes his Cleopatra and silently slinks out of the room...

Author: By Jack Wliner, | Title: Collections & Critiques | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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