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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the war broke, Artist Russell Ross and Author Monte Barrett scrapped cuts and continuity prepared six weeks in advance, hastily gave Jane Arden a war assignment. On her way by plane this week to the neutral kingdom of Anderia, while real correspondents were chafing because they could not get to the front, Jane Arden was caught between the lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: First Strips | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...cryptic verses supposedly predicting (among other great events) the rise of Oliver Cromwell, the Great Fire of London in 1666, the revolt of Britain's American colonies. Nostradamus wrote: "The Chief of Fossan will have his throat cut. . . ." Said Columnist Walker's Astrologer: "Transpose fossan and you get OSSANF, the initials of Hitler's title, Oberster Sturm-Scharen-Anführer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: People's Augurs | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

Regardless of what your trouble may be, you can look the world in the face; solve all your problems; get what you want and fear no man or circumstance. Your happiness and success demand that you print your name clearly and send it to Rev. Charles P. Colbert, Detroit, Mich., 545 Owen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Holy Oil | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

Most of the 2,500,000 children in U. S. Catholic parochial schools get an old-fashioned schooling, and most Catholic educators have no kind word for progressive education. One exception is brainy, brawny George Johnson, head of Catholic University's education department and educational director of the National Catholic Welfare Conference. Four years ago Dr. Johnson started a model elementary school attached to Catholic U.'s Sisters College, which trains nuns to teach in parochial schools. Aware that the strict curriculum of parochial schools (which enroll half of U. S. Catholic children) repelled many a Catholic parent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Healthily Modern | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

Only a fraction of the total U. S. crab catch is canned; most of it is sold iced or half-cooked, is so perishable that it can not be shipped very far inland. Until the Fellers discovery, the only domestic crab-meat inland regions could get, was from dungeness (West Coast) crabs, which last year were 95% of the U. S. canned pack of 648,000 pounds. Significant, therefore, is the Blue Channel Corp.'s process, because it offers a new source to satisfy the U. S. appetite for crabmeat, which far exceeds the domestic supply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISHERIES: Blue Crabs | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

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