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Dates: during 1930-1939
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For 30 years a celebrity sculptor, bushy-whiskered Jo Davidson is known for his studies of presidents, generals, kings and Gertrude Stein. Of late "Headhunter" Davidson's social types have changed. Dedicated last autumn in Claremore, Okla. was his memorial statue of the late homespun Humorist Will Rogers. Exhibited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Carvers & Casters | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

Last week SEC also did the following for and to U. S. business: > Cracked out its first accusation of political bribery in violation of the Public Utility and Securities Acts. It charged the $255,000,000 Union Electric Co. of Missouri, a subsidiary of North American Co., with making contributions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Drenching | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

Such is the phenomenal William Lyon Phelps, playboy of the humanities, Dale Carnegie of the critics, "the world's champion endorser." In the '20s William Lyon Phelps had passed his peak with undergraduates. But with U. S. readers he was at the height of his power, carried more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Humanities' Playboy | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

THE HOLY TERROR-H. G. Wells-Simon & Schuster ($2.75). Most of H. G. Wells's 80 books have pictured the shape of things to come; if nobody knows what the future holds, it is not his fault. In The Holy Terror he sees the same old Wellsian future: the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Novels | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

"America will probably emerge as dictator of the world after a war, especially if she remains neutral. Even if she comes in, her position will have her. She is not exposed to air-raids. Most Americans don't realize what a war in Europe will mean. It will destroy our...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bertrand Russell Sees U.S.A. Dictator After Next Conflict | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

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