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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Income taxes were up 50%, the tax on tobacco up 20%, the beer tax up 14%. It was against the law to ask for a raise in salary or to demand extra pay for overtime. Every able-bodied resident of a German city was required to help pile up sandbags and to assist in building air-raid cellars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Grim | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...think my son has the slightest wish [for a third term]," said she at Hyde Park. Her son in Washington was guarded almost as though the U. S. were at war. Ringing him, barricading the approaches to the House chamber where he was to speak, were 150 Washington police, extra Secret Service details, 150 Capitol guards. They policed even the press galleries, stopped Attorney General Frank Murphy when he brushed past. Conspicuously absent from the attending Senators was Idaho's Isolationist Borah. Absent from the crowded diplomatic gallery were the representatives of Germany, Italy, Japan. Conspicuously present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Opening Gun | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...rays of the sun. Normal U. S. adults get all the vitamin D they need when they bask on beaches, and, if they drink plenty of milk, need not worry about calcium regulation. But to make best use of the calcium in their diet, pregnant women and children need extra amounts, must take daily doses of cod-liver or halibut-liver oil. Of the numerous commercial foods fortified with vitamin D, "only milk needs to receive serious consideration." Best type of fortified milk is "metabolized milk," drawn from cows which are fed irradiated yeast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Vitamins | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...Bill Brown in the B backfield who bore the brunt of the shock troops' sole successful sally. Following a 17-yard dash, Brown carried again in from the 11 for the score. Frazier Curtis place-kicked for the extra point...

Author: By Sheffield West, | Title: CRIMSON VARSITY SHINES IN NINTH DAY OF CONTACT | 9/29/1939 | See Source »

Distant in kin but near in spirit to Louisiana's late Huey Pierce Long is his California cousin, Minor Pierce Long. Round, pink-faced Mr. Long is a Missourian who went west and into the dairy business, picked up extra money lecturing on what he calls "metaphysics." One night in 1933, he now recalls, he woke up with an idea for an economic cureall, forthwith explained it to his wife and two daughters. They did not understand it. Minor Pierce Long nevertheless went ahead with his Ray System Corporation, Inc. As has many another fiscal dreamer, he proposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Huey's Cousin | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

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