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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Actress Tallulah Bankhead's uncle-&-father-hugging act of last fortnight (TIME, July 3) had the effect of winning Uncle John and enough other Senators to restore the Federal Theatre Project to the 1940 Relief Bill. Miss Bankhead should have hugged more Representatives. When the bill went to conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: For 1940 | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

That class, says Professor Pitkin, is patient, mute, productive, yet is put upon by the predatory rich, the predatory poor, the lunatic fringe, the criminal fringe, the racketeers (including crooked politicians). He wants the Middle Classers to fight back. He wants to start a newspaper, a magazine, a radio forum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Middle Rouser | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

Last week occurred the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, the treaty that was going to insure the peace of Europe forever and ever, Amen. No celebrations marked the date. Instead, all eyes were on the man who had torn that document to shreds, Adolf Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: German Drums | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

War of Nerves. No longer was there any doubt that Adolf Hitler is determined to have Danzig this summer, preferably without war, but, if necessary, with war. Nor could there be any doubt last week that, as matters now stand, Poland would fight rather than give up the mouth of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: German Drums | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

As the Nazis followed through their by now familiar routine of the "war of nerves" by massing troops on the Polish border, smuggling SS men and ammunition into Danzig, spreading tales of terror, creating incidents and sounding false alarms, the outline of the coup could be foreseen. Danzig would have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: German Drums | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

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