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Dates: during 1930-1939
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A fine leadoff man in Captain Art Johns, who hit for 362 in League contesis last season to rank sixth in the circuit. Reine Grondahl, the team's "money hitter," led the League in runs batted in last year. Jojo Soltz is almost as vicious a hitter as Lupien. Batting...

Author: By Thedore R. Barneit, | Title: Batting Power Key to Nine's League Prospects This Year | 4/12/1939 | See Source »

A new chapter was last week tagged on to the saga of Harold E. Dahl, the U. S. aviator who fell into Rebel hands while fighting as a mercenary for the Loyalist Air Force in July 1937. Ambassador Claude Bowers, back from Spain for good, said that the famous letter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Salamanca Saga | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

"Some say there are 10,000 [Communists] waiting in jail to be handed over in their chains to the victorious Nationalists. . . . Why are they there? They are being held as ransom. With their lives they will probably pay for the lives of those who put them in prison while they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Aftermath | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

Visiting a brewery in Hackney (London outskirts), King George VI was presented with a bottle of beer that had been brewed by his brother. Edward, Prince of Wales, in 1932. Flustered, the King handed the bottle to an equerry, hedged: "I can't very well carry the bottle around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 10, 1939 | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

This week the well-worn Providence, R. I. public library offered an unusual exhibition by a gifted man who calls himself a "tramp printer." It will be shown later in New England, Midwest and Far West cities. Containing 768 items, the collection ranges from the classic Oxford Lectern Bible and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tramp Printer | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

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