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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those of us who are proud to be numbered among the friends of Graham Patterson his Christian character needs no defense, but I sincerely hope you will find a way to correct the impression your item must have made on his many unknown friends among Christian Herald and Farm Journal readers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 20, 1939 | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Future at 70. These objectives might seem rather meagre were it not for the fact that the drive for them is already bound up with the campaign of 1940. All those who become serious candidates for the next Democratic Presidential nomination will find the issues ready made for them by the quiet struggle now going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VICE PRESIDENCY: Undeclared War | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Then a new problem arose. Unless he paid the safe deposit rent regularly, the company would open the box and find the bombs. Having no key, he could not remove them in secret. The price of safety was $10 box rent annually. So for 21 years he paid blackmail to the devil in cash. Even so his secret was not safe. This winter the safe deposit company decided to move. He could do nothing. So finally Reinhold Faust's box was duly opened. Having heard this story, Municipal Court Judge Matthew D. Hartigan freed Reinhold Faust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Box No. 198 | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Reasons for the British ooze of optimism were not hard to find. First, Britain will probably have a General Election this year. Business usually improves when governments talk peace. The European atmosphere, moreover, has been so full of dire warnings to totalitarian powers lately that many a British voter might easily have forgotten that the Prime Minister won his international fame as the Great Appeaser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Peace Week | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...critics' choice for the finest actor on Broadway was very enthusiastic about the research he had to do for his present role. "I spent several months reading every bit of available material I could find on Lincoln," he said, "for I had a very difficult task before me in trying to convince the critics that a Canadian could successfully undertake so American a role...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Raymond Massey Left Oxford to Fight, Discounts College Influencing Career | 3/18/1939 | See Source »

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