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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horizontal head shake ... for suggested revival of your "Current & Choice" list of movies [TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 28, 1939 | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...trained Mormon army of 5,000 men, and known political influence, which Lincoln and Douglas were glad to curry. Only during the Mormon pogroms that culminated in Joseph Smith's murder by lynch mobs in Carthage, 111. in 1844, was polygamy added for the first time to the list of Mormon iniquities. The charge was true enough, Prophet Smith having secretly married 27 wives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Polygamist Epic | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

Meantime the F. B. I., which usually considers it undesirable to dignify Public Enemies by listing them, issued a list of ten most wanted, most dangerous criminals. Tom Dewey's Leopard, whom he had built up as No. 1, appeared only as No. 4. Ahead of him came Irving Charles Chapman, Texas bank robber, Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe* bank robbers, who escaped from Alcatraz two years ago. No. 5 was Paul Cretzer, 29, another bank robber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Leopard Hunt | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

...time, without bothering to get them copyrighted, he wrote songs (some 700), many of them today either unpublished or unidentified. The best of them (Oh, Dem Golden Slippers, In the Morning by the Bright Light, In the Evening by the Moonlight, etc.) stood high in the list of bestsellers. Today's music connoisseurs are beginning to call Bland "the Negro Stephen Foster," to rate him after Foster as the second greatest U. S. writer of Southern songs. During his lifetime, Minstrel Bland called himself, more modestly, "the best Ethiopian song writer in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Black Stephen Foster | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: SECURITIES: Trustees' List | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

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