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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congressional investigation. By the standards of past masters at inquisition his performance has not been brilliant. Ex-Senator (now Associate Justice) Hugo L. Black was at his best with a hostile witness, knowing well how to bait the trap, when to spring it. Senator Robert M. La Follette also knows the uses of the subtle query. Mr. Dies knows chiefly how to bellow. Last week he had the thrill of seeing his bellowing affect not just the ear of some baffled layman but the tympanums of that knowing politician, the Head of the Democratic Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Dies and Duty | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...husben that I am living with now name Henry Bowden, Cumbland, M. D. making a total of 8 husben. Yours truly, Annie Bell Bowden. Her age is 87 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: 8 Husben | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...trial in absentia at Barcelona of famed Andrés Nin (secretary to Leon Trotsky in Russia during the Revolution) and seven members of his Spanish P. O. U. M. Party ended almost unnoticed this week by the world press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Trotskyists Liquidated | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...dynamic personnel manager of Marseille's largest and showiest dry goods store, Les Nouvelles Galeries, bearded M. Frichet recently succeeded in persuading the owners to protect the lives of clerks and customers in their gaudy firetrap by ordering a modern sprinkler system. The gossiping Marseille plumbers and their helpers were maddeningly slow; but by last week they had put in all the pipes and sprinkler heads, promised by this week to get the system connected to the water mains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Fire | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

Coach Carr's Varsity has defeated Tufts 5-0, Amherst, 2-1, Dartmouth 3-0, Springfield 1-0, M. I. T. 4-3, and tied Princeton 3-3. Brown has defeated M. I. T. 3-0, but has lost games to Worcester Poly Tech, Wesleyan, Dartmouth, and Williams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Soccer Team Holds Big Odds Over Brown Today | 11/5/1938 | See Source »

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