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Dates: during 1930-1939
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3) Continuation of the stabilization fund (created in 1934 out of a $2-billion paper "profit" from the devaluation of the dollar) which is used to protect the exchange value of the dollar from violent fluctuations during crises.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Money at Midnight | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

There is nothing that Biologist Conklin wants less than to spoil the celebration. But as a scholar and scientist he is an uncompromising iconoclast. So he thinks it only fair to make the point that the cell theory was set afoot not in 1839 but during the previous 170 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Old-Fashioned | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

Nature of the Man. Among great modern scientists Edwin Grant Conklin stands out by being oldfashioned. He began his academic career as a country schoolteacher, dispensing all knowledge in the rural scholastic grab bag and performing as janitor to boot. Born during the Civil War in Waldo, Ohio, son of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Old-Fashioned | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

The Streets of Paris (produced by the Shuberts and Olsen & Johnson). Once Broadway had a summer season when producers trotted out fleecy and filmy girl shows. But with the decline of musicomedy and the growth of the straw-hat theatre, producers took to estivating. Show business decided months ago, however...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Shows in Manhattan | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

In the Municipal Arts Museum in Bruges last week King Leopold attended the opening of the year's most important Belgian exhibition: 41 paintings by Memling, brought together from collections as widely separated as Lübeck and Cleveland. One of the few important Memlings not included was the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Memling | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

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