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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pasadena's Rose Bowl, in an off-&-on drizzle, a powerful, versatile Southern California team which had given Notre Dame its only defeat of the season, tried desperately to gain the distinction of being the first eleven to cross the goal line of the 1938 Duke team. Though they outrushed the Easterners by 135 yards to 86, outpassed them by 84 yards to 53, not until the final minute did they succeed. Then with four magnificent forward passes, as dramatic as a Hollywood scenario, the Pacific Coast champions smudged Duke's clean slate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Taps | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

Topper Takes a Trip (United Artists- Hal Roach). For George Kerby (Gary Grant) and his wife, Marion (Constance Bennett), the consequences of an inexcusable automobile smashup are that, as ghosts, they gain the ability to vanish or materialize whenever they like. In Topper (1937), Marion and George proved themselves indefatigable posthumous cutups: to save their friend Cosmo Topper (Roland Young) from his fussy wife (Billie Burke), Marion materialized herself in Cosmo's hotel room at an improper moment. In Topper Takes a Trip, the sequel, Topper and his wife set out to get a divorce, but neither of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 9, 1939 | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...votes) to get re-elected last year. The Republican who got in soon told the State's Attorney, who told the grand jury, that Hayes, Leary & Co., "a small but powerful, ruthless and corrupt group of men." had been running Waterbury's affairs "for personal financial gain and political advancement" at a cost of millions of dollars to the city. Mr. Hayes's widowed mother went on his $25,000 bond. Last week Mr. Hayes's lawyers fought tooth & nail to save him by querying prospective jurors so closely that, after three weeks, they had accepted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Connecticut | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

...Rufus Jones and two other Quakers - Headmaster George Arthur Walton of George School near Philadelphia, and Businessman D. Robert Yarnall of Germantown, Pa.- set sail on the Queen Mary, bound for Germany. They hoped to discuss the Jewish problem with German officials: with Adolf Hitler, even, if they could gain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Friends' Service | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...Edsel Ford explained his company's traditional aloofness with a 1903 anecdote: "My father inquired of one of the officers of the [A.M.A.] association if it were possible to join this association. ... He was told, I understand, he had best go out and manufacture some motor cars and gain a reputation and prove that he wasn't a fly-by-night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Diplomas | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

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