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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Magical Wilson. "Men of the German Reichstag," cried Realmleader Hitler, "when in the grey November days of 1918 the curtain was lowered on the bloody tragedy of the Great War ... the views of the President of the United States had reached the ear of the world ... in Fourteen Points! "No people succumbed more completely to the magic power of this fantasy than the Germans. ... We had been dragged into the War, for whose outbreak we were exactly as guiltless, or as guilty, as other peoples. . . . That peace which was intended to be the final stone laid on the cover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bludgeons & Cookies | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

...Magic Touch/B...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $5000 IS OFFERED FOR NON-FICTION ARTICLES | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

...addition, $500 will be paid for all articles considered acceptable for publication. "An illuminating human experience occurring to anyone in a position to observe human nature: the desire to recognize a fine accomplishment; all of these and more, if the magic touch is added, can be translate into articles of winning quality," the Digest announcement states, explaining the contest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $5000 IS OFFERED FOR NON-FICTION ARTICLES | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

Polls. No magic is involved in Emil Hurja's election predictions. His method is simply to avoid opinion, stick to statistical facts. Letters received by the Democratic National Committee and at the White House are all carefully cataloged by subject and place of origin, thereby giving Mr. Hurja some clues to public opinion. His main reliance is on polls, public & private, local & national. Little polling is done specially for him, but he ferrets out many polls of which the public never hears and adds them to his store of information. In former years the straw votes conducted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Roosevelt, Farley & Co. | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

Whereupon I did tell him things he did not know: That this Tower possessed magic charms: It be what you think it to be. Whereupon I showed him the wine barrel; the four poster; the stained glass windows; even the bats and the elves; and, but only for a moment, appeared the Old Woman. Alice, The Hatter, and, most real, the Dormouse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/8/1936 | See Source »

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