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Dates: during 1930-1939
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If U. S. culture was not much enriched by the Lyric Theatre last week, the reputation of Composer Copland was. His music for the "character-ballet" Billy the Kid, much of it based on cowboy songs, was close-knit, percussive, incisive, wasting not a grace note in its evocation of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: For the People | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Climax of Rose of Washington Square shows Actor Power, melted by My Man, turning himself in to plead guilty to a somewhat foggy charge, take a five-year prison sentence. Nicky Arnstein (real name: Jules W. Arndt Stein) turned himself in after his wife sang the song, was convicted of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nicky's Nick | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Last week if shorts did not lose their shirts, some of them lost their neckties. At the end of April the short interest amounted to 662,000 shares, a 48% increase in four months. In Chrysler stock (the No. i flier) the short interest had increased 176% to 65,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETS: June Boom? | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Businessmen now generally accept-with reservations-the Securities Act as a wholesome reform. But in 1933 many fought it bitterly, arguing that no one could take the risk of issuing securities because Section 11 of the Act provides that any purchaser of securities can recover damages from the issuers for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Dreaded Event | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Happy at having saved three lives, Dr. Macfarlane predicted that, if all women over 30 would follow the example of the 1,200 volunteers and demand complete periodic pelvic examinations, the "appalling death rate" (15,000) from cancer of the uterus would be greatly lowered.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer Volunteers | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

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