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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Then along comes the carpenter whistling something in Norwegian. He was pulling hard in the tiny dinghy. That's the workboat the sailors use when they paint the ship. It usually holds six. In the end we had twenty. . . . The men had to lie on top of each other, and we had to bail all the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Down We Go | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...winner faints, cusses or thanks Providence the audience hears none of it, because NBC dares not take the responsibility for airing what goes on at rainbow's end. In Woodcarver Drouin's case, Ben Grauer reported that he had said: "I ought to buy that boy some lollipops." Next week the winner was a preacher, the Rev. W. H. Lash of Salisbury, N. C. At the parsonage, a female voice answered, showed no excitement over the message; replied that the Reverend was not at home. The Reverend won $1,000 just the same. If no one had answered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Rainbow's End | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Correspondents on their way to the front (see p. 58) also will submit to a double censorship: once in the field, again at the end of their special wire to London. To most newswriters it was clear last week that Britain's official press hierarchy, though changed in form, was little changed in substance, might prove no less muddleheaded than before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: 999 to 849 | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...from 89% three weeks ago to 76% last fortnight. From 73% in the first week of World War II, the desire of U. S. editors to keep out of Europe's quarrel had later dropped to 51% (while 21% roundly abused Hitler), risen again by month's end...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: What Were They Saying? | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Frank Gervasi, onetime I. N. S. man, last week got permission to go for Collier's; then at week's end his authorization was canceled. Reason: other magazines had equal rights with Collier's, twelve U. S. newsmen had been set as a limit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Green Felt and Gold C | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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