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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Chicago, the whole Weems incident was cleared up. In the office of Lawyer Francis Heisler appeared Negro Frank Weems, alive and whole. After being beaten he had hidden for a week in a hobo "jungle," then traveled north, had finally told his story to the Workers'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Resurrection | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

In contrast to many of their lay colleagues, the Catholic editors had no doubts about the freedom of their press. "The Catholic press today is the largest part of what is left of a really free press," expounded venerable Bishop Francis Kelley of Oklahoma City. ''Its very difficulties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: VOICE | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

Kid Galahad (Warner). Prizefight pictures, once a staple product of the cinema industry, have been out of fashion since The Prizefighter and the Lady. First of its sort since the resounding failure of that venture in 1933. Kid Galahad, adapted from a realistic Saturday Evening Post story by Francis Wallace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, May 31, 1937 | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

Died. Count Francis Harrach, 67, aide-de-camp to the late Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand; in Vienna. At Sarajevo, June 28, 1914, Count Harrach stood on the left running-board of the Archduke's automobile, unsuccessfully attempted to shield him from Gavrilo Princip's fatal bullet.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 31, 1937 | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

When he is not experimenting on cosmic rays, high-haired Director William Francis Gray Swann of Franklin Institute's Bartol Research Foundation, plays a cello. Young William Edgar Danforth, his assistant, plays a cello too. Both are mainstays of the Swarthmore (Pa.) Symphony Orchestra, a volunteer organization of about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Oscillion | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

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