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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Army ventures no guesses as to cause or place of any civil uprising. Obviously, however, any plan to use the army assumes a defense of Government from forces threatening Government. Obviously, too, any such threat to Government would be most likely in time of general economic collapse.-ED...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 10, 1938 | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

...settled in New England before 1680. Her lifelong interest in social welfare led her to Chicago's Hull House, introduced her to her husband, then secretary to New York's reform Mayor John Purroy Mitchel. Neither she nor her husband has ever been a genuine mill worker.-ED...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 10, 1938 | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

...Director of the British Meteorological Office, people riding in an automobile with an all-steel top are practically immune from lightning, even though the automobile itself may be struck. The movement of the car does not affect its chances of being hit. Safe rule in a thunderstorm: drive slowly. -ED...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 10, 1938 | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

...other citizens, to distribute pamphlets. Far be it from TIME to judge, from among the clouds of Christian witnesses, which are the true followers of Jesus Christ. Jehovah's Witnesses, however, are demonstrably cultists, holding as they do such unorthodox beliefs as that the world has already ended.-ED. Ears Pinned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 10, 1938 | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

...When you die- It's a lie! The song, written by Joe Hill (executed for murder in 1915) and sung to the tune of In the Sweet Bye and Bye, was intended to counteract Salvation Army propaganda, reflects orthodox radical agnosticism.-ED...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 10, 1938 | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

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