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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...object," shouted Wisconsin's young Bob La Follette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Economy's End | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Left out of account by observers who figured that Jim Farley's sole object was to line up convention delegates for himself is the fact that in politics-his profession-he is as hard-headed a man as there is alive. He is an automaton of political finesse, a tireless, viceless performer of the right word & deed at the right time for political effect. As such he is most interested in backing a candidate who will win nomination and election in 1940. If that candidate is James Aloysius Farley, that will suit him fine. If it is Franklin Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Unrumpled Traveler | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Blue-eyed, reddish-haired Director Webster was born-"a small tangerine-colored object"-34 years ago in Manhattan. On both sides she comes of English actors : famed Dame May Whitty is her mother, Shakespearean Actor Ben Webster her father. Acting since childhood, Margaret Webster slid into directing because the field was less crowded, but admits she prefers acting. Though she professionally directed a score of plays in England, it was in the U. S. three years ago, with Evans' Richard II, that she first directed Shakespeare. Directing plans for next year: Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard. Some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Flushing-on-Avon | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Plato once said that the excellence or beauty of every structure is relative to the use for which the artist has intended it. In other words, an object must have a use before it can be considered beautiful and the greater degree of utility it has, the more beautiful it is. But art is only useful when it can become assimilated into the daily life of a person, when it can be taken from its silver platter and caten without the aid of knife and fork. And the only way in which any work of art is able to fulfill...

Author: By Jack Wilner, | Title: Collections & Critiques | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...object in Sculptor was found to be 290,000 light years distant, and to have a diameter of 6,500 light years. The Fornax cluster is further away and a little larger, but belongs in the same class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shapley, Astronomy Head, Announces Identification of Gigantic Star Clusters | 5/5/1939 | See Source »

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