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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Garners eat dinner at noon in Uvalde-Mr. Garner snapped his chopper-chin up & down on 44 words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: On the Hunt | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...ordinarily record the minutes of all sessions, and everyone in the galleries except the peers, who included His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester. On the floor of the grossly overcrowded House, which has seats for only 476 of its 615 members, scores of M.P.s squatted tailor-fashion. To eat during the secret session, which lasted more than seven hours, many had bought for sixpence each what were offered in the refreshment rooms as "Secret Sandwiches for Secret Sessions." These contained "macon"-the British wartime substitute for bacon-smoked mutton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Fight to the Finish? | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Miserly, always shabbily dressed, old August Thyssen used to drink beer and eat wurst with his workers. Consistently he kept away from politicians and society, and when it was suggested that he appear at the German Imperial Court he replied that he had no suitable clothes for such an occasion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Daddy's End | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...comely girls" (Warren Cales, 18, Sandstone, W. Va.; Richard Crane, 17, Rushville, Ind.; Carlisle Klein, 18, Black River Falls, Wis.; Leslie Warrant, 16, Kasota, Minn.; Ruth Fitzenreiter, 16, Bel, La., and Joann Parks. 15. Liberty, Ind.). An invigorating press release announced that all six drink milk and eat plenty of vegetables, added pointedly that five drink "no coffee" (exception: Joann...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Crops and Prospects | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...Charles Giffin Pease, founder of the Non-Smokers' Protective League (he used to snatch cigars from the lips of subway smokers), celebrated his 85th birthday in his usual fashion, delivering a good-natured diatribe to newshawks against whiskey, wine, beer, capital punishment, the killing of animals, the eating of flesh. Said he: "The dear chickens, how they scream and struggle in their effort to break away from the hands of the assassin. If it were right to kill chickens there would be no expression of fear on the part of the chicken." To show up meat eating, he told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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