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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...closing, I suggest that you have your hoodlums look me up and come out here to wreak their and your vengeance on me. I'll be awaiting them. Hail America

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 13, 1939 | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...given Herman Petrillo the job of making the policies pay out. Thoroughly professional, Mr. Petrillo, said witnesses, shopped around for cheap killers, worked not only with arsenic but with sandbags, faked hit-&-run accidents, a lead pipe so ingeniously designed that it could bash in a skull to look as if the victim had fallen downstairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Petrillo's Job | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...there is deer and traditional respect; the eight largest States exchange diplomatic representatives with the Vatican. Brazil runs neck-&-neck with Italy as the world's largest Catholic State, although its 40,000,000 Catholics are shepherded by only 6,000 priests.* Bishop Ryan and Father Sheehy, looking businesslike to South American churchmen, who still wear their soutanes in the street, visited papal nuncios and hierarchs, talked with them in Italian and French, found everywhere that Latin American prelates look to the U. S. hierarchy for social and cultural leadership-a leadership which has been slow in materializing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Amateur Diplomats | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...whimsical, greying man of 44, Philadelphia-born Frank Jeremiah Black can look back through his heavy horn-rimmed cheaters on 25 adventurous years in music As a boy he played the piano in a nickelodeon. University of Pennsylvania turned him out a chemist, but piano-pounding in a Harrisburg hotel offered better money. From then on he stuck to music, studied under Organist Charles Maskill and Pianist Rafael Joseffy, applied this talent to writing vaudeville songs, editing for a Philadelphia music publisher, and running his own player piano roll company. He used to pound rolls out by the yard, under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Old Timer | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...feel," wrote Hino, "that the enemy soldiers whom we are killing look so much like us that we could be neighbors." When his company narrowly missed annihilation, he confessed: "I was seized with violent rage that precious life could be damaged so easily. . . . We soldiers are not only sons of men, but also husbands and fathers. We are human beings. . . . This is not the first time for me to have this sort of feeling. It is one of the most commonplace thoughts on the field of battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Japanese War Diary | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

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