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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...love-stricken being, their trust in him is shattered. That they should feel thus seems only natural, but the picture tries to make the situation highly dramatic. Does Parnell betray Ireland or Ireland Parnell? That is the question. The result is a hopelessly wishy-washy conflict between mass admiration and the illegal love of a party champion. With both sides in a deadlock, the script solves its problems by killing off Mr. Gable that Ireland may profit from his plight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

Authentic photographs reaching the U. S. last week (see cut) made perfectly clear why, though no mass bombing raids had yet been launched, Bilbao's children had to be evacuated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Still Bilbao | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

Northern Baptists. Most famed president the Northern Baptist Convention ever elected was Charles Evans Hughes (1908). Last week in Philadelphia's big Convention Hall met 5,000 Northern Baptist dele gates under the presidency of Herbert B. Clark, president of the North Adams (Mass.) National Bank, director in a half-dozen New England firms. Big, bald Banker Clark traveled 45,000 miles during his year in office, acquired a new pulpit manner speaking in hundreds of churches. Member of a rich Berkshire family (his father gave his old pastor $25,000 when that man of God retired), Banker Clark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Gatherings for God | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

...several other States and addition of a few more States to the tax column would take a sizable chunk of A. & P.'s profits. Long were the conferences in A. & P. executive offices in Manhattan last week but no company comment was forthcoming, an "official spokesman" merely observing: "Mass distribution is not static." Two alternatives to chain store merchandising are already showing hardy growth-the supermarket and the voluntary chain. Not unlike the "Iowa Plan" by which oil companies sell filling stations to their operators (TIME, Nov. 23), the voluntary chain consists of stores owned and operated by independent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Tax on Bigness | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

...coma, never recovered. His last words were: "Raise me up a little bit." None of the Rockefeller family was with him. John D. Jr., his only son, was at Pocantico Hills near Tarrytown, N. Y. Mrs. Alta Rockefeller Prentice, his only living daughter, was at her estate at Williamstown, Mass. At the bedside in the air-conditioned chamber were Mrs. Fannie Evans, the cousin who acted as his hostesshousekeeper; his longtime valet-attendant, John H. Yordi, and his night nurse, Roy C. Sly. "His passing was peaceful," said Dr. Merryday. "He had no final message. Apparently he didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Last Titan | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

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