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Word: minding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your article about Science Fiction magazines brings to mind a little-considered result of the now famous Orson Welles Martian-menace-hoax broadcast of last fall. Many of the Science Fiction pulps now on sale owe their success to the publicity given the Martians at that time. Martians, you know, are very essential to Science Fiction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 31, 1939 | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...girl to attend such functions should demand ironclad protection. Girls from 15 to 25 were there. We had two in our party. Never would have I permitted either to have gone without constant watch. I knew what they were going to face! What a responsibility! What aches of mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHIGAN: Lurid Luren | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...Washington came as a popular surprise. Only persons long associated with him in this undertaking have been Stephen Pichetto, the Metropolitan's restorer and technical adviser of painting, Florence Art Dealer Count A. Contini-Bonacossa, and for a period, the late Lord Duveen. A merchant who cultivated his mind while he was accumulating his chain of 240 stores, Mr. Kress did not need much help. It was about 25 years ago that he first started making large-scale purchases. Every summer he took time off to visit European spas and ferret the art centres. Always he came back with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Uncle Sam to Uncle Sam | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

Cold with anger, Franklin Roosevelt sat down and dictated a statement, denying that he and Cordell Hull had yet decided what to do next about neutrality, giving U. P. a piece of his mind. Excerpts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: President & Press | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...executed in 1938, when in an insulting blob of black type he announced that the Chronicle was fed up with the current warehouse strike, demanded that the warehouse operators and the C. I. O. make peace. The union replied with a suggestion that Editor Smith print the facts or mind his own business. Editor Smith countered with the announcement that "the Chronicle makes it its business to stick its nose into any so-called private row which affects the broad public interest." The union snapped back: "That being the case, we ask you to serve as mediator." Paul Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Smart Squirt | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

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