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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...article seems to the writer well calculated to inform your readers as to the present status of the British Crown, particularly as a constitutional device to unify the Empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...Dali and Julien Levy, who runs a high-brow Manhattan art gallery; most of it by a group of oldsters with Broadway experience. Never publicity-shy, Dali, who recently broke one of Bonwit Teller's Fifth Avenue show windows because Bonwit Teller tampered with his display, is at present berating the Fair because it would not let him exhibit, outside his nuthouse, a woman with the head of a fish. Merrily upping the publicity, Dali's Dream of Venus has sent out a long press release headed: "Is Dali Insane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: As You Enter | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

Almost incredible to these voteless tax payers was the very first amendment made in the bill last week by the House. Offered by Missouri's Cochran, boldly supported by Majority Leader Sam Rayburn, overwhelmingly-and anonymously-voted by all present, the amendment specifically exempted all members and employes of Congress from "be District income...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Cheap Performance | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...friends of Consul Reinhardt hint that at present he is being put on the spot by intriguing Nazis, who, they claim, do not like him, have sidetracked his diplomatic career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Literary Consul | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...seen and done. And this very intensity of enjoyment has banished satisfaction--even as the lover cannot enjoy a parting kiss when he knows he will yearn in the future for the lips he now feels. The future--new kisses, new surroundings, new interests--is too remote to cool present emotions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

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