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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wise Girl (RKO Radio), a befuddled whimsicality, starts off by explaining that all its characters are fictitious, proceeds to prove them superfluous. A very rich girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...Freshman B team is working hopefully toward what may prove to be a Metropolitan League Championship is its division. So far it has won four, tied three, and lost one match to the City Club. At 8 o'clock on Saturday the team faces the City Club in what will probably be the deciding match of the competition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drastic Reorganization of the Harvard Chess Club Results In New Constitution and Inauguration of College Ladder | 1/5/1938 | See Source »

Heurtley, who lived at 14 Garden Street last year, was forced to leave school because of poor health. All indications seemed to prove that his latest venture was a frantic effort to reach Palm Beach before the height of the winter season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PADDLER BOUND FOR FLORIDA ELUDES COAST GUARD POSSE | 1/4/1938 | See Source »

...that the Rumanian Nazis (who are said to shake down Mme Lupescu for such large sums-by threatening to assassinate her-that she has ironically been called their biggest backer) might team up in coalition with His Majesty's Government. In any case Rumanian election returns seemed to prove that the recent visit to Bucharest of French Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos has done nothing to weaken German Nazi influence in the Kingdom of Carol von Hohenzollern, nothing to strengthen Democracy in the Balkans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Nice for Nazis | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

What the Eagle strike seemed to prove was that a publisher could get out his paper without the Guild, but that even though he escapes the Guild's full demands, the possible financial loss is terrific. Last week many Guild members thought they had so clipped the Eagle's wings it would soon be in receivership. Mr. Goodfellow's retort: "If there was the remotest possibility, do you think I would spend $30,000 in severance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Double Knockout? | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

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