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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...HARLAN, Ky.--Coal mining operations were resumed in scattered sections of Harlan County today under the watchful eyes of heavily armed National Guardsmen who clashed twice with United Mine Workers pickets but otherwise held violence to a minimum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 5/16/1939 | See Source »

Louisville. Hazy and heaped-up, Louisville, Ky., says Author Leighton, is the museum piece among U. S. cities. There are the battered columns of Nicholas Biddle's once great United States Bank: "now the windows are bleared and there's a drunk asleep on the crumbling steps." In the great Gait House, financiers once fought over the Louisville & Nashville; in the lobby General Buckner, Confederate hero and Chicago real-estate speculator, smoked his corncob pipe and fought the reformers. At the Music Hall, 43-year-old William Goebel, ranked by Leighton as the greatest field general among...

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

...precisely 8:25 every morning except Sunday last week, the employes of the First National Bank of Pikeville, Ky. entered the bank through a side door, filed past a chiming cuckoo clock, gathered in the directors' room. There Bookkeeper Mary Clark seated herself at a shiny electric organ and began a service consisting of a hymn, ten Bible verses, a short but earnest homily. The homily was delivered by stout, expansive, 39-year-old John Marvin Yost, the bank's vice president, cashier, trust officer and secretary. Sample sentiment: "Pikeville is the grandest town that ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONEY & BANKING: Toscanini to Whiteman | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

Henderson, Ky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 13, 1939 | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

While the strong right hand of the Teleki Government was cracking down on the Nazis, the dexterous left hand went on signing up with them. In Budapest, Hungary's Foreign Minister Count Stefan Ćsáky signed the anti-Comintern pact with representatives of Italy, Japan and Germany at the very moment the raids were in progress. In this Alice in Wonderland atmosphere, German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop wired congratulations to Hungary on its adherence to "the pact ... for fighting the subversive elements which threaten world peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Left v. Right Hand | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

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