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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revelations have already been promised by Mr. Dies and by Senator La Follette, the former now recovered from an appendectomy that temporarily affected his heart. Mr. Smith, the calm, unpurged Virginian, has promised only a "fair and impartial" scrutiny of NLRB, but New Dealers do not like the look in his eye (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Sideshows | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

Mellon: "What did he look like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 14, 1939 | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...cheeked, rotund Joseph C. Lincoln's 30-odd novels all have their quotas of clambakes, oilskins and "characters." "The average summer boarder," says dry-spoken Innkeeper Seth Hammond Ownley, "is forever hunting 'characters' and forgetting to look in the looking glass for a specimen." Novelist Lincoln, now 69, comes of a seafaring Cape family, was once a commercial artist. To make his drawings sell better, he wrote verses and jokes to go with them. Soon the verses outsold the pictures. Cap'n Eri, his first novel, was a bestseller in 1904; he has been publishing bestsellers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Down East | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...marriage proposal. . . . Few grafts are more profitable than comforting a widower. But remember that fast work is required. . . . Girls write their own price tags. . . . Don't feed men flattery in hunks, with a shovel. They resent this." One Lure Men Can't Resist is: "The come-hither look in the eye, a sort of come-on look if you get what I mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Did I Do Wrong? | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...shirts with tails ample enough to let their wearers stand decently on their heads. A feminist (her husband "cannot remember introducing her even once as Mrs. Putnam") she was still feminine (her thought going through a thunderstorm over the Gulf of Mexico: "How pretty my ship must look against such a background-and there is nobody here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Flying Lady | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

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