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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"Thus the time-honored festival of THANKSGIVING was instituted:--a festival, which, originally, confined its observance to the sons of the Pilgrims and the state of Massachusetts, and which has now become almost a NATIONAL FESTIVAL, peculiarly appropriate for an expression of gratitude to God, and an acknowledgment of dependence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chase, History Tutor, Considers Sanctity of Thanksgiving Holiday | 11/21/1939 | See Source »

In spite of the arrival of the biggest buyers the U. S. has seen in a generation there are relatively few war orders to date whose actual existence can be confirmed. World War II is a war of caution and just as France and Britain got together and agreed to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Profiseering | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Died. George Denver Guggenheim, 32, millionaire bachelor son and only remaining child of Philanthropist Simon Guggenheim; by his own hand (rifle) in a Manhattan hotel. Member of the executive committee and a director of American Smelting and Refining Co., of which his father is president, a director of General Cable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Milestones: Nov. 20, 1939 | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Excellently made (with his own money, according to Producer Korda, though later the British Government bought it), the picture maintained a mounting tension as thrilling as its theme sound of droning airplane engines. But it also had a quiet humor. Sample: during the Kiel raid the navigator asked his pilot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Air Lion | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Now threatening that Reds may tie-up the Chicago meat-packing industry over night, Dies clearly shows that un-Americanism has no limits but his own imagination. If workers in the stockyards come within the scope of the Committee, who may remain outside? Stockyards mean unions, and unions mean possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HOBGOBLIN IS A MAN | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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