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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horses (⅔ cavalry; ⅓ draft) from three Midwest commission firms. Buyer: France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Profiseering | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Durant's erudite wife says their house in Great Neck, L. I., is a "factory." The great popularizer planned to work five years on The Life of Greece, cut it to four-and-a-half to get the book out before election year. First draft was written in what Durant calls "the butcher's book," a mighty ledger. He scattered no less than 2,500 source references (to some 200 sources) through the 671 pages of The Life of Greece. Along with these impressive grace notes are other devices, beginning with the price, calculated to put the stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: New History | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...that time the Liberal Club sponsored a series of talks by leaders of the four parties in the 1920 presidential campaign. Norman Thomas was invited to speak for Eugene Debts, Socialist candidate, who was then in jail for draft evasion, and permission was granted by the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: John Reed Society Will Inaugurate Petition Campaign for Browder Talk | 11/9/1939 | See Source »

Born. To Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, 46, serving an eight-year sentence for draft evasion and wartime desertion in an Army prison (Governor's Island in New York Bay); and Berta Frank Bergdoll, 32; their sixth child, a daughter; in Philadelphia, Pa. weight: 6 Ibs. 13 oz. Name: Berta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 23, 1939 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...draft will be submitted to the full Council for approval when it meets again next Tuesday night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMITTEE ON TENURE SELECTED BY COUNCIL | 10/18/1939 | See Source »

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