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Dates: during 1930-1939
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*In a Los Angeles Superior Court last May, a union counsel asked Bioff if the producer was Joe Schenck. "I don't remember," Bioff said.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Rats Raided | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

Humorist Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, 63, lying ill of an abused stomach in a San Francisco hospital, sat up in bed ("like a bullfrog in a pan of milk," said one reporter), and told the press: 1) "I can't say that the X-ray pictures flatter me. One of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 21, 1939 | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

Rumpled Columnist Heywood Broun, 50, who is always at odds with his editors, reported in his syndicated daily comment It Seems To Me that he had had a conversation with Nudancer Sally Rand. She confronted him with: "I always say it is an evil thing for anybody to speak ill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 21, 1939 | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

"Don't believe these stories about hamburgers selling for a dollar and a half. They cost a dime and they're not transparent or synthetic. . . . We have put a soul into this Fair. . . . It is the last word in the application of the genius of man. . . . Our Fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Figures v. Dreams | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

Under such headings as "Don'ts" Every Girl Should Know, How to Attract a Husband, Lures Men Can't Resist, she chatters of the business of mating in the lower brackets with the kindly solicitude of a slightly prurient older sister and a hard-boiled realism that would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Did I Do Wrong? | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

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