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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boys; get busy and see what kind of job you can do making rugged individualists of yourself. Get real rugged! All New Deal rules are out of the window! I don't care what you do so long as you are honest about it and make a lot of jobs, but you've got to make jobs real quick and hire all these fellows. When you get 'em all at work, I'll see to it that you get a square deal at every turn in the road. All I ask is that you make jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 23, 1939 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...sometimes my duty to go cut a black gum toothbrush for my Grandmother, who was a snuff dipper. Practically all the elderly Christian mothers and grandmothers of that community (Hickory Grove, Texas) were snuff dippers. These modern women with one baby and a cigaret could learn a lot from these pioneer women. Snuff dippers don't talk much. . . so they do considerably more thinking. Smoke is the ghost of tobacco. Chewing tobacco is its body, but snuff is the soul of nicotine . . . the mark of men with hair on their chests and women who raise breast-fed babies that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Sadler in the Saddle | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...Cohen of the Record: "Harvard will win by three touchdowns to one, unless Penn plays a lot better than last week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five of the Quaker Stars for Today's Game | 10/21/1939 | See Source »

Authors Mock & Larson also correct many a misconception about the CPI. One of these is that the Creel Committee was entirely responsible for converting a neutral-minded public into a rabid war mob overnight. A lot of neutrality had crumbled away before George Creel finished it off. From Theodore Roosevelt in Oyster Bay to Ambassador Page in London, most of the "best people" in the U. S. had been pro-Ally from the start. On March 11, "War Sunday" had sounded the call to arms in the nation's churches. Four weeks before war the Railroad Brotherhoods said their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: CPI | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...cats' meow: This week Red Norvo announced that he was sick and tired of the cut-throat competition in jazz and the necessity of playing what he considered to be rotten music in order to get a lot of work, and announced that he was from now on going to work only a few nights a week, make records, and that he was going to take postgraduate work at Juillard Institute in New York just for the fun of it! There are too few guys like this who want to play good, relaxed music so much that they will give...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 10/13/1939 | See Source »

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