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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Labor did not expect employers to like this, but soon after the Wagner Act was passed a large section of U. S. Labor discovered that it did not like this either. For Labor does not always practice the kind of collective bargaining called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wagner Charta | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...must still be resisted. Then he recalled Herr Hitler's pledge (to him and to the world) that Nazi Germany had no further territorial ambitions in Europe. Said the Prime Minister bluntly: "Those assurances have now been thrown to the winds absolutely." Said he in words that will either alter the course of European history or will for years be thrown back contemptuously into Britain's face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Watch on the Vistula | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...title. Katharine acted as a child, as a schoolgirl, in art theatre groups, in stock; at length-and ever more triumphantly-on Broadway. As a neatly blown-up scrapbook of her career, I Wanted to Be an Actress is acceptable enough. But beyond that, the reader draws a blank. Either Katharine Cornell, in her devotion to her profession, has lacked time to study things and people or, having done so, she is resolved to keep mum. Dozens of names, from Greta Garbo's to Alexander Woollcott's, from David Belasco's to Orson Welles's stud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Great Katharine | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

...miles an hour, runs 120 miles on a gallon of gas. Underslung between small, pneumatic-tired wheels, it has handlebars like a motorcycle, a footboard on which the driver puts his feet, an enclosed engine housing over the rear wheel on which he sits. Unlike either bicycle or motorcycle, it can be ridden sitting straight up, with a minimum loss of dignity. The rider straddles no crossbar, has no engine between his knees to oil his slacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Scoot Business | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

...uncommits suicide by jumping in through the window, the surgeons back in with the body, which comes alive, the letter goes back to the lover, the husband takes back his wife's birthday present and backs happily out the door. If somewhat short on logic in either direction, this piece of Kulturbolsche-whimsey was just as good fun coming as going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Palindrome Opera | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

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