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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reported by the Department of Agriculture; 3) reduced wheat consumption throughout the world because of hard times. Oldtime traders compared the President's outburst to the Secretary of Agriculture's political scare last year about short wheat sales by U. S. S. R. (TIME, Sept. 30 et seq.). Wheat men were of the opinion that prices were too low now for shorts to operate with any expectation of success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hoover on Shorts | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

...stories are currently favored by producers as a measuring stick for actresses who seem capable of being built up into a resemblance to Greta Garbo (Mysterious Lady). Helen Twelvetrees is charming, low-voiced, auburn-haired, but she lacks the exotic numbness of Garbo, Marlene Dietrich et al. Her quiet and intelli gent acting leaves the melodrama plausible but not exciting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 20, 1931 | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

...contended that Brer Fox, Brer Rabbit and their friends were products of "the indigenous folklore of Southern negroes for many generations back." The contention was important, for $10,000,000 hangs upon the Court's decision as to whether or not. recent Coca-Cola advertisements featuring Brer Fox et al. have infringed upon the copyrights of Author Chandler's books. Plaintiff in the $10,000,000 infringement suit is Mrs. Esther La Rose Harris, widow of the author, owner of the copyrights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Suits | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

...Encyclical: up to last week the Italian Government had sent a total of two notes and the Holy See a total of five notes re- specting the Italo-Papal differences over suppression by Dictator Benito Mussolini of numerous Catholic clubs and the Society for Catholic Action (TIME, June 8 et seq.). His Holiness was getting no satisfaction, receiving no apology from the Italian Government. The world press had dropped the story from front-page headlines to inside squibs. By his 15,000-word encyclical Pius XI stirred slumbering interest as by a mighty trump (though the Italian Government took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY-PAPAL STATE: Everything is Promised | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

Convicted. Rogers Clark Caldwell, 41, Nashville banker; of fraudulent breach of a trust agreement between defunct Caldwell & Co. (TIME, June 8 et ante) and Hardeman County, Tenn. Offense: posting as collateral securities of less than specified value. Penalty: not more than three years imprisonment. Three similar indictments rest against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport, Jul. 13, 1931 | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

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