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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brewster will be glad, I'm sure, and certainly interested, to know that the Commonwealth & Southern System put its objective rate formula into effect in 1932, which was prior to the TVA Act effective in Alabama in 1933, so that's that, and then some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 11, 1939 | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...have done such a creditable job in reporting news of the Catholic Church, allowed this absurd statement to slip by their collective eyes. Evidently the press knew, and TIME did not, that no Catholic is ever questioned before or after marriage as to his potency or impotency. JOHN M. CONROY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 11, 1939 | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...hope someone gets a good laugh out of this! O. P. THORSON, M...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 11, 1939 | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...telephone in Franklin Roosevelt's bedroom at the White House rang at 2:50 a. m. on the first day of September. In more ways than one it was a ghastly hour, but the operators knew they must ring. Ambassador Bill Bullitt was calling from Paris. He had just been called by Ambassador Tony Biddle in Warsaw. Mr. Bullitt told Mr. Roosevelt that World War II had begun. Adolf Hitler's bombing planes were dropping death all over Poland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Preface to War | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...downs of the agency business, Agent Selznick has faced stiffer competition since his valuable partner Frank Joyce died two years ago and since Leland Hayward, Margaret Sullavan's husband, pulled out of the Selznick partnership. Last year Hollywood gasped when 20th Century-Fox's President Joseph M. Schenck, exasperated with Selznick's demands for Loretta Young, ordered him off the Fox lot. So far, the only person who has caught Myron Selznick napping is his friend and client, Carole Lombard. Renewing her contract with him recently, Cinemactress Lombard had printed a duplicate contract under which Selznick agreed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hotfoot Man | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

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