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Dates: during 1930-1939
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For a down payment of $1,200,000 and a balance of $2,300,000 to be financed later (probably by the U. S. Export-Import Bank), President Moore and Treasurer McCormack sold 14 of their old (19-21 years) Hog Island cargo ships to the Brazil Government. For Brazil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: Hog Islanders | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

The Great Commandment (Cathedral Films), as sombre as a pogrom and sometimes as bloodcurdling, tells the story of a Jewish revolt against the Romans in 30 A.D. After treating the audience to a pretty thorough study of oppression at its Roman worst, the picture knuckles down to entertaining. Joel (wistful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 6, 1939 | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

After 260 pages of ingratiating and painful romance, in the reliably glamorous Civil War-Reconstruction setting, Heroine Emily Fenwick settles down to her real business. That is, for 700 pages and 60 years more, to live out the whole vast length of her life, the trivial with the towering, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ladies'-Book | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

In fact the margin of victory revolved on the superior and sensational kicking of Princeton's Bob Peters, who kept the Harvard offense beautifully boxed with coffin corner down deep in Crimson territory.

Author: By Sheffield West, | Title: Rejuvenated Squad Shows Improvement In Dropping Close Contest to Bengals | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

"Attendance this year at Sunday services has been down slightly while daily morning prayers have risen appreciably in popularity," said Deen Willard L. Sperry, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Professor of Homiletics as he released the figures for church attendance yesterday.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More Attend Morning Chapel As Sunday Attendance Drops | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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