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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...transient servant girls, and forwarding the story with a protracted conspiracy to get Father baptized, Life with Father bowls pleasantly along. The first two acts are rather upsy-downsy, with some of the humor forced and thin, but the last act turns hilarious, with Father finally departing for the font in a shower of laughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Nov. 20, 1939 | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

This squeeze may be a sign rather that the Japanese are desperate than that they are smart. They might lose their silk market forever. Last week in Wilmington, Del., Du Font's sheeny, much-publicized nylon hosiery went on sale at $1.15, $1.25, $1.35 (for different gauges), sold quickly when salesgirls claimed that one pair of them would outwear four of silk, that they would dry in ten minutes when washed. As material for full-fashioned hose a previous silk substitute, rayon, was a lame competitor to silk but nylon and its brother synthetics now in prospect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Paying with Silk | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...vacant and in Riga, where 40,000 Germans lived, the commercial district was almost deserted. German language newspapers folded. Among the famed journals of Riga was Das Baltikum, founded by Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, chief of the Nazi Party's foreign political office and long regarded as the spiritual font of Naziism. The Hitler-Stalin collaboration has ended Baltic-born Dr. Rosenberg's dream of German eastward expansion at the expense of Russia, and the doctor is now rumored even to have lost the Führer's friendship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Balts' Return | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...perplexed U. S. people strongly desire to know exactly what kind of world it is that the Governments of Great Britain and France are fighting to protect or gain. Nowhere was this U. S. perplexity better expressed than in a letter to that font of British Governmental information, the London Times, from one who has lectured, instructed, amused and scared Americans by the thousand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Planless Peace | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Here they are, though I fear your typesetter may not find them in his font...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 4, 1939 | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

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