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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"Come here at once, and don't sidle up to me like a hog going to war." my mother used to say to me, soap in one hand, a wet cloth in the other.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 22, 1938 | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

Writer Johnston insinuated that, after three false starts in insurance, Son James's ultimate success was entirely due to his father's becoming President. Replies:" Sure, I got into places I never would have if I wasn't the son of the President. . . . But, son or no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Salesman's Reply | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

Every summer many people are killed by lightning on U. S. golf courses (see p. 20). The U. S. Golf Association was acutely reminded of this fact last June when two spectators were killed and Golfer Horton Smith was grazed by lightning in the Kansas City Open.* Last week the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Storm Warnings | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

Having recovered from an appendectomy in Washington, Don José Tormos Diego, mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, told reporters what he thought of the Nationalists who tried to assassinate Governor Blanton Winship in the mayor's home town (TIME, Aug. 1). "If I could speak the English by the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 15, 1938 | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

The late William Merritt Chase, instructor in painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, was born in Indiana and adored Velasquez. His pointed beard and the Bohemian elegance of his clothes assisted his talent in making him the most popular teacher of his time. In the early 1900s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: U.S. Classicist | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

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