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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most violent explosion ever created by Man was recently made (together with scientific history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test, Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...boiler worker went on to erase the stigma of that strikeout. The craftiest, quickest-thinking ball player in the major leagues, Second Baseman Lazzeri became the mastermind of the Yankee infield, helped them win six pennants and five World Series, became, next to Babe Ruth, the most popular player ever to wear a Yankee uniform. Thousands of New York's Italians, who up to that time had been content with boxing and boccie, began to stream into Yankee Stadium. "Poosh 'em up, Tony!" thereafter was the battle cry of the bleachers. In the World Series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Twilight Trail | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

These eulogistic claims of the deadliest weapon, pound for pound, ever devised by man, were studied last week by Manhattan stock salesmen who had never fired a shot in anger. They were planning neither to fight a war nor put down riots, but to sell 300,000 shares of stock (at $2.75 a share) in Thompson Automatic Arms Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUNITIONS: Chopper | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

Daddy N. G. Richman always turns up at factory dances and celebrations, has the walls of his office lined with autographed bridal photos of Richman "fellow workers," has a huge album with autographed pictures of every man and woman who ever worked for Richman Bros. But "Daddy" Richman's friends never mention "paternalism" to him more than once. Says he: "That stuff's all right, but it's the pay envelope that counts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Daddy | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...anticipate the window-rattling violence and savagery of these lovers' quarrels, the crazed sadism of Monk's accusations, or the deadly criticism that Mrs. Jack shoots back. Because she always comes back for more, however, because they make up from time to time and declare "Was there ever love like ours?" it is a long time before the final parting. Near the end Monk makes his bitterest accusation: "I've lost my squeal" -meaning his "wild goat-cry of pain and joy and ecstasy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bitter Mystery | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

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