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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speakers included: Non-Veterans Mary Pickford and Henry Ford; British and French representatives, who made restrained pleas for the Allied cause; and General Hugh S. Johnson, who had been actively fermenting since World War II began and at Chicago finally blew out the cork. His big idea: Stay out of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: No Seven-Toed Pete | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Guilty Pastor. One night last month dull, unbeautiful Wanda Dworecki, 18, was strangled and beaten to death near a Camden, N. J., cemetery. Police noted that her seamy, brooding father, the Rev. Walter ("Iron Mike") Dworecki (of the First Polish Baptist Church) had insured her for $2,695, that he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Crime | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

While Prime Minister King met with his Cabinet, plump, black-bearded Percival Price, carilloneur of the Parliament Building's peace tower played, with his assistant Robert Donnell, selections from Wagner, favorite composer of Adolf Hitler. They were practicing for this week's Carilloneurs' Congress in Manhattan. At...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Empire | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Mr. Klein was not only crestfallen, he was embarrassed. He had to recall his printed invitations to listen in, and it was difficult to explain to acquaintances that his appearance had been canceled because he was just too good. So Mr. Klein filed suit, in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court No...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: S-L-E-E-P | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

With this argument two of his bitterest Court Bill opponents promptly took issue last week. Nebraska's Senator Burke said: "The important consideration is that the Court itself, as an institution, remains intact." And Montana's Senator Wheeler, in response to White House pleas, said: "I never disagreed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Off the Floor | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

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