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Dates: during 1930-1939
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> Pure-hearted Frank Murphy announced: "I personally don't want to be on a ticket of any kind." Opined Columnist Raymond Clapper, who has excellent Administration sources: ". . . The Attorney General is running too hard for the Vice Presidency . . . [There is a] hint in certain quarters . . . that [he] forget the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Seeds of 1940 | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

Montgomery Ward & Co. in its Kansas stores hires extra saleswomen to work on rush Saturdays, pays them for that day only. Last week an official of Kansas' Division of Unemployment Compensation ruled that since Montgomery Ward's extras are partially employed, they are partially unemployed, therefore are due...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Compensation | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

> Henry Ford, who knows about motorcars, informed a group of summer campers near Detroit: "I believe those three submarine disasters were caused by sabotage. It is all a scheme by financial war makers to get this country into war. Of course they'll blame Germany but I don'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Whole Truth | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

Some 30 years ago sleek, bandboxical "Dapper Don" Collins began looting telephone boxes, soon graduated to blackmail, stock swindles, fraud, rumrunning. By the garish '20s he had a yacht, rolls of thousand-dollar bills, a long police record, a beauteous consort (Helen Patterson Heywood, who divorced her husband for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 3, 1939 | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

*One, two-three. Balance like me. You're quite a fairy but you have your faults. While your left foot is lazy, your right foot is crazy, But don't be un'azy, I'll learn you to waltz. (Singing this icky classic, Mistress Shirley properly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 3, 1939 | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

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