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Word: nationale (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sitting Pretty. Edouard Daladier is what the French call an homme sérieux. A terrific worker, he leads a modest family life, living with his sister (he is a widower) and his two schoolboy sons. Even as Minister of National Defense he used frequently to bicycle to his office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: June and September | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

As a last murmur before giving in, the National Association of Broadcasters moved to have the regulations threshed out in public hearings. Meantime no short-waver signed up any advertising accounts, and one even so far endangered international good will as to broadcast to Germany in German how No. i...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: FCC Rules the Waves | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

> The seventh-place (American League) Detroit Tigers, with bespectacled Rookie Paul Trout pitching: a baseball game (6-to-1) against the-tip-top New York Yankees: handing the World Champion Yankees their first defeat in 13 games, ending the longest winning streak of the season; at Yankee Stadium, The Bronx...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Jun. 5, 1939 | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

For the amount of cultural fuss it begets, music is unequalled among the arts. There are in the U. S. no less than 4,900 local music clubs, with a total of 500,000 lady members ready to defend the diatonic scale as they would defend their young. Last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Clubbers | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

"During these two years," she said, "we have been somewhat frightened by the silence of our countrymen created by the lack of community or mass singing. . . ." To break the silence, President Ober had arranged for a "national chorus" of 950 voices. When this great choir trooped into Baltimore's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Clubbers | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

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