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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...land forces operating under General Gamelin's supreme command. At the same time the air chiefs met, Sir Cyril L. N. Newall and General Joseph Vuillemin. In the air the Briton is the boss, but in this War, land and air forces are integrated more closely than ever before. All the generals concentrated on a problem for which neither nation had primarily fashioned its arms: an offensive action moving away from France's great defensive bastion, the Maginot Line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN FRONT: Soar Push | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...square miles of the Uhn San district of his sparse North Peng-Yang Province to a brilliant, Columbia City, Ind. promoter named Leigh S. J. Hunt. Three months later Li-Hsi was imprisoned, his wife assassinated by a Japanese-Korean junta. But by 1897 he was back, despotic as ever, under the advanced title of Emperor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINING: Chosen Gold | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...that Publisher George Backer is assembling for his New York Post. Hollywood thought Publisher Backer had picked the right horse, for Skolsky is one of the ablest columnists in the business (he originated the term "Oscar" for Academy Awards) and by far the most popular. Most serious row he ever had was when he criticized Constance Bennett for her noisy behavior at first nights in a column entitled "The Constance Sinner." Actress Bennett invited him to take her to an opening and see if she could not be a lady. Replied Skolsky: "I'm afraid I couldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mouse's Return | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Columnist Skolsky has a wife smaller than he is, and a love for Hollywood because it is the only place he has ever gained weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mouse's Return | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...autobiography." It was this alleged autobiography, the orotund work of a neighbor, Schoolmaster John Filson, that first spread Boone's fame as No. 1 U. S. frontiersman, started the boom in Boone legend. Just how many lies Boone's "autobiography" contained, biographers have been busy discovering ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Elbower | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

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