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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Courier-Journal Colonel Watterson said flatly that Theodore was "as mad as a March hare," suggested that his family ought to lock him up before he did more harm. Another time he called Roosevelt "as sweet a gentleman as ever scuttled a ship or cut a throat." When World War I began, Marse Henry wrote: "We must not act either in haste or passion." But it was his habit to end his editorials with the cry: "To hell with the Hohenzollerns and the Hapsburgs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Southern Succession | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...lights gleaming over the marquee of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art one night last week spelt the name PICASSO. Outside, the traffic jam would have done credit to a prize fight. Inside, 4,000 people crowded for a preview of the most comprehensive show ever assembled of work by the world's most famed living artist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Protean Pablo | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...year) is 51-year-old Tris Speaker, Cleveland's baseball Immortal who has spent the past nine years as a radio sportcaster, Hollywood actor, minor-league club owner, wholesale liquor dealer and steel salesman. Managing the Cleveland club is another onetime Indian, baldpate Bill Wambsganss, only baseballer ever to make an unassisted triple play in a World Series (against the Dodgers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Indoor Baseball | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...than three times as big-108 grams to 33. On the whole, therefore, the whale's organic power plant was bigger. Scientific moral: Old Mother Nature, whose selection produced Delphinapterus leucas, is a better hand at turning out an efficient biological engine than young Homo sapiens, breed he ever so artfully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Whale Y. Horse | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...more than 50,000 people. Her husband is the movies' average man and from his pockets comes more than half of Hollywood's yearly revenues. To his average wife Hollywood sells dreams of luxury and love more expertly unreal than her own imagination, experience and daring could ever make them. "What the adult American female chiefly asks of the movies is the opportunity to escape by reverie from an existence which she finds insufficiently interesting. . . . She sees the quickest release... in dreaming of an existence which is rich, romantic, glamorous. But dreaming, though a pleasant occupation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Who, What and How | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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