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Dates: during 1930-1939
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But if future anthropologists ever have to plot the world's transition from male to female dominance they may well refer to Their Majesties' visit as early evidence. The most pointed aftermath came from women involved.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bread-&-Butter | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

Speaking last week at Asbury Park, N. J., pure-hearted Frank Murphy made sounds very much like a man planing a 1940 political plank. He viewed with alarm "the astonishing total of approximately 4,000,000 Government employes receiving in salaries nearly $6,000,000,000 a year ! " Then he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Planing Sounds | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

By analogy the U. S. should long ago have begun distributing decorations to those responsible for most great American accomplishments: businessmen. Now particularly, if Napoleon was right, the U. S. needs great businessmen to combat depression and unemployment. But last week, it was France, not the U. S., which instituted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Dry Goods | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

To begin with it should be pointed out that even Harvard indifference will melt before the eye-filling chorines and showgirls. To a reviewer accustomed to nothing more startling than Radcliffe citizens and Vincent Club members the girls were indeed an ocular tonic. Tall and willowy, each was a tribute...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 6/22/1939 | See Source »

In London last winter the Oxford Group of Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman was guided to apply to the Board of Trade for incorporation as a limited company. Reason: it was legally nonexistent, could not collect a ?500 legacy willed to it (TIME, March 20). When the Group's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Oxford Group, Ltd. | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

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