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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mexico announced that, for the first time since President Cardenas confiscated U. S. oil properties, the U. S. in September was the largest buyer of Mexican oil (640,000 barrels). Germany had bought none, presumably because none could be shipped past the British blockade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Nice Idea | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...winter concert season is formally opened this week with the beginning of the Boston Symphony Orchestra's Friday and Saturday series. These concerts and the Sanders Theatre series, which will begin this year on October 19, are so important to us that this largest and most brilliant of the organizations who contribute to our music in Cambridge sometimes eclipses the numerous smaller groups whose activities are by no means unimportant...

Author: By L. C. Helvik, | Title: The Music Box | 10/10/1939 | See Source »

...nostrils of the dauntless Mayor of Warsaw, "Stefan the Stubborn" Starzynski, as all Poles were calling him, stank last week the corpses of men and horses rotting in almost every street of Europe's fifth largest capital. More than 500 separate fires were blazing in Warsaw, covering the city with a choking lid of smoke and flame. The reservoirs were blasted and dry, the power plants smashed, and Nazi bombers, after destroying the Jewish Home for Crippled Children, had methodically blown to bloody smithereens all Warsaw hospitals, crammed with wounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EASTERN THEATRE: Deutschland über Warsaw | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...dried is the election of A. B. A. presidents. Anything but cut-&-dried is its newest one, Robert March Hanes, 49, president of Winston-Salem, N. C.'s Wachovia Bank & Trust Co. (largest bank between Washington and Atlanta; deposits: $91,000,000). Fond of quail shooting, lively parties, buzzing about, he has sat in both General Assembly and Senate of his State Legislature. For years he rode a motorcycle to the bank every day. Once it got away from him, ripped through his wife's pet flower bed. Evaded he: "Mildred, some damn fool has torn up your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Small-Town Banker? | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...themselves. Most notable is John W., who made a bigger fortune than his father, is now Under Secretary of the U. S. Treasury. Dr. Frederick is a professor at Duke University Medical School; Alex is a leading Winston-Salem stock broker; James is head of Hanes Hosiery Mills Co., largest U. S. women's seamless silk hosiery knitting plant; Ralph is head of a dye and finishing business which he founded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Small-Town Banker? | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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