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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three months ago the Communist New Masses gleefully revealed that one Walter G. Krivitzky, exiled Russian general who was publishing a series of articles in the Saturday Evening Post, was really one Shmelka Ginsberg (TIME, May 22). In April General Krivitzky had claimed that Stalin was trying to team up with Hitler, and the New Masses took a lot of trouble to discredit him. Last week, while the Communist press was stammering explanations of the Russo-German treaty (see above), the Post bought nearly a full page in Manhattan, Philadelphia and Chicago papers to boast that it had predicted just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ginsberg's Revenge | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...Post was not alone in boasting of its prescience. Liberty matched the Post's Krivitzky with a Princess Radziwill, who predicted a Russo-German alliance in the issue of September 3, 1938; and in the October 20, 1938 issue of Ken one Edward Hunter had practically the same idea. Winchell guessed it, of course. He, too, reads newspapers. And Bad Boy Columnists Pearson & Allen knew some of the details a month before the deal. Among the amateurs, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. wrote in a letter dated June 7: "I still believe that eventually Russia and Germany will get together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ginsberg's Revenge | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Ninety-five per cent of its output consists of the 35? popular discs advocated by President Kapp, and Crooner Crosby sells about 2,000,000 of these a year, a post-Caruso record record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Phonograph Boom | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Married. Alexander Feodorovich Kerensky, 58, Premier of Russia's 1917 post-Tsar second provisional government, longtime exile; and Lydia Tritton, 33, daughter of an Australian industrialist; both for the second time; in Martins Creek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 4, 1939 | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Part of this trade is what the U. S. stands to lose, but the loss will probably be concentrated in goods which have already taken an export beating. Agricultural exports were 36% of pre-Depression. Of smaller post-Depression total exports, agricultural exports are down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Come War, Come Peace | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

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