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Dates: during 1930-1939
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THANKS FOR THE SEND-OFF UNDER PRESS [TIME, JAN. 16] BUT PLEASE PERMIT ME TO CORRECT THE IMPRESSION THAT MY MOTHER IS WIDOWED OR A TIMES STOCKHOLDER. FOR 19 YEARS SHE HAS HAD A SWELL HUSBAND NAMED GAVIN HAMILTON BUT SHE HAS NEVER OWNED A PENNY'S WORTH OF A SWELL PAPER NAMED THE TIMES...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 30, 1939 | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

...teachings of my hardworking, religious mother that prepared me for a happy life of service based on faith in God. ... At this very moment there are gathered around her grave some of my relatives who were unable to come to this ceremony and for me, in her memory, they are tenderly laying on her grave a cross of fresh flowers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Pappy's Panacea | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

...liberty. This is an inspiring theme. But working crudely, emotionally, in headlines, Kaufman & Hart over-sentimentalize their theme. Canny showmen, they know that if, as Dr. Johnson said, patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, it is also one of the first salvations of a box office; that mother love and dying for one's country are not only the stuff of great art but also the surefire cliches of popular entertainment; that a cavalcade of the past-Bryan and T. R., the Wright Brothers and Lindbergh, hobble skirts and high-buttoned shoes-is a perfect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Jan. 30, 1939 | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

Edgar Monsanto Queeny is president of $61,000,000 Monsanto Chemical Co.. which his father founded in 1901 on an original investment of $5,000. Monsanto is a family name (President Queeny's mother's), but Monsanto Chemical is not a tightly-owned family business. This week the Company's house journal devoted 39 pages to a survey showing that thousands own, millions have an interest in the business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUBLIC RELATIONS: Who Owns Monsanto? | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

...sequels, Missouri's famed train robber was portrayed as a morally delinquent crook. Producer Darryl Zanuck naturally takes a kinder view of Jesse's failings. Purified in the person of Tyrone Power, Jesse James emerges brilliantly in Technicolor as an amiable brigand, genuinely devoted to his aged mother and generally more sinned against than sinning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 23, 1939 | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

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