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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fortnight ago, Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes watched with bright red face while Gridiron Club members portrayed him as Donald Duck, the frenzied squawker. Last week, "Honest Harold"* engaged General Hugh Johnson in debate in Newark, said: "We are both contesting for the post of Donald Duck of Public Affairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: 1940 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Game Spoiled. According to the Ciano version, what really spoiled this Axis game was the overture of Neville Chamberlain to Joseph Stalin and the consequent alarm of Adolf Hitler lest he have to face an Anglo-Franco-Russian lineup. The action of the democracies, said Count Ciano, so bolstered the prestige of the Soviet Government that the Nazis had to do something about it. "If the great democracies had ignored Russia," feelingly continued Ciano, "Germany would have had well-founded motives for doing the same." Thus Britain and France were officially blamed for starting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Ciano on Crisis | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Harry Hershfield, Manhattan cartoonist (Abie the Agent), went Charter No. 1 and chairmanship of the New York City chapter of the Grouch Club of America. Grouch Hershfield obligingly posed for news photographers, put his worst face forward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 25, 1939 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...until they had a picture that ran just under four hours. They took this to Riverside, in the orange country, surprised fans there with a sneak preview. With them was Jock Whitney, who had not seen the film before. When the picture ended, tears were streaming down his face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...This course will analyze the rapid dislocation of economic variables that occur in war times, and during the transition to peace. War economics is a branch of economics like Industrial Organization or Money and Banking, giving the department a chance to use Economics in the treatment of problems that face the world today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WAR'S ECONOMIC PHASES STUDIED IN NEW COURSE | 12/19/1939 | See Source »

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