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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...used fighting words last week, Eleanor Roosevelt used to be considered a pacifist. Last February, during the Isolationist storm over Franklin Roosevelt's sanction of warplane sales to France, she began to edge out of her corner. "Germany," she wrote, "is geared to produce a thousand planes a month; France to produce one hundred planes a month. . . . Do our sympathies lie with the other democracies, or do they lie with the totalitarian states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sons and War | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...oldest President elected, William Henry Harrison, 68, died of pneumonia in 1841, after a month in office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 2, 1939 | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...Texan who had studied art and architecture, Tom Woodburn was commissioned in the Infantry a month after the U. S. entered World War I. He hopes it will never have to enter World War II. Wife Margaret and Daughters Betty, 17, and Peggy, 6, are also artists. Two years ago Betty posed as a streamlined Miss Columbia for one of her father's posters. When his superiors discovered Tom Woodburn's talent, they added painting to his other duties as Chief of the Recruiting Publicity Bureau. What he says of his own Army experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Persuasive Posters | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

Other popular records of the month: Day |n-Day Out (Artie Shaw; Bluebird). Rube Bloom's popular-melody-of-the-month played by a sound dance band...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Lion | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...last month's 20, the following stood out as best bets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: September Mysteries | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

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