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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime, the Loyalist Government arranged with France to use the sizable gold holdings it still has in Paris to pay for part of the refugees' expenses in France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Last Retreat | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...firemen of Woburn, Mass, had their collective pay cut $7,600 last year for economy's sweet sake. The Mayor of Woburn is William E. Kane, and his brother Michael is fire chief. Last week Woburn's firemen, all but the chief, sued

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Men of Fire | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

That incident made Wal's reputation as an underdog leader and Government headache. Ever since then he has been employed by the unemployed. In 1921 he became head of the National Unemployed Workers' Movement, which by last week had accumulated 180,000 members who pay a penny a week dues if they can afford it, and who pay Wal less than $25 a week to keep the Government in a frenzy. He has earned his pay and then some, particularly this winter when, according to last week's figure, the British unemployment total reached a three-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Wal's Work | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...physicians are proud of the fact that they donate one million dollars' worth of free medical services to the needy every day and never refuse to help anyone, whether he can pay or not. Last week Southern physicians gasped as they heard of a bold infringement of this humanitarian code. Five of the eight doctors serving the 3,000 souls of Atmore, Ala., and five of their colleagues in cotton-growing Escambia County printed an advertisement in the Atmore Advance warning Escambia County's prospective mothers that henceforth they would demand cash on delivery. The ad: "We wish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: C. O. D. | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

What saddened the two victims of the ruling was that they had to pay duty on the paintings not as reproductions of postcards, worth approximately two cents each, but as fashionable paintings, worth from $200 to $2,000 each. What saddened dealers, critics (including the Museum of Modern Art's President Anson Conger Goodyear and Director Alfred H. Barr Jr.) and artists in general was the ruling's implication: that an artist's model rather than his method determines whether his work is original...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Utrillo's Duty | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

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