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Dates: during 1930-1939
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To Gibraltar last week the Rightist Government sent an official announcement that El Caudillo Francisco Franco has expelled from Rightist Spain Francis Xavier Charles Marie Anne Joseph, Prince of Bourbon-Parma, Carlist pretender to Spain's vanished throne.*

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Carlists v. Legitimists | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

* 0nly the words of the Star-Spangled Banner were written by Francis Scott Key. The tune had its origin in 18th-Century England as the gusty club song of London's Anacreontic Society, is believed to have been written by one John Stafford Smith, the society's organist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Squeakless Anthem | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

Two years ago a young sculptor named Michael Francis Lantz made himself a "very satisfactory" studio in New Rochelle, N. Y. He built a skylight into an abandoned pumping station, for which he paid $10 rent a month. Last week Sculptor Lantz was afraid his rent was going to be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Apex Prize | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

Professional ornithologists and professional bird painters have been inclined to look down their noses at his work. They point out his anatomical inaccuracies: his horned owl represented with three rather than two toes forward. They criticize his romantic cloud effects. They pointedly praise the correctness of his contemporaries, men primarily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Brasher's Birds | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

Since SEC's major purpose is to police U. S. security markets,* this ignorance, after three years' intensive study of the subject, might be surprising were it not that everyone admits that complete o-t-c regulation approaches the impossible. Congress was stumped by the problem while creating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: SEC to O-T-C | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

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