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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...return to Alaska in January, to be among the Indians whose faith he admires. They will creep to church on hands & knees, against bitter winds which would blow a man down. "White people," says Bishop Rowe, "make me a little tired. They are ready to take everything, and give nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mushing Bishop | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...indictment for passport fraud. When Yale undergraduates also invited him, urbane President Charles Seymour said he would not interfere. His reason (laid down two years ago in his inaugural address): "The London policemen in Hyde Park have learned that the surest method of exposing incompetent charlatanism is to give the charlatan a protected forum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Shoemaker Melville can afford to help the industry out. With his warehouses full of leather, the price increase should give him a nice inventory profit. Price boosts may work quite satisfactorily until they begin to set consumption back to the 1929 level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Shoes Up | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...Army General Staff, and cunning propaganda stories (of plots to restore the Kaiser, failure of German food supplies) concocted by Playwright Giraudoux himself. There, too, in sumptuous rooms that once housed U. S. tourists, censors sit poring over proofs of tomorrow's papers, ferreting out lines that might give information to the enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Anastasie | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...give you a view of the world in tattoo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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