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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people at large. What happened last week to its ardently nurtured Popular Front was funny to many, painful to many. On the theory that democratic governments and peoples could be usefully linked in a world front against Fascism to save the imperiled U. S. S. R., Communists in 1935 postponed the revolution, began to woo. They fashioned a domestic program so broad that no liberally minded citizen or group could oppose all of it all the time, thus were able to claim vast support for "collective security." One stanch unit of the U. S. Front was (and is) the American...
When Bishop James Bernard Sheil of Chicago was a student at St. Viator College, his teacher of sociology and economics was Father John W. R. Maguire. Bishop Sheil is now a potent friend of Chicago Labor, a very present help to C. I. O. in its offensive against meat-packing Armour & Co. (TIME, July 24). Also serving the Lord and Labor in his diocese is his onetime mentor, Father Maguire...
...June 16 representatives of China and the U. S. S. R. put their signatures to an economic pact which was scarcely announced. It received scant attention in the world press until three weeks ago, when Chungking officials announced that the economic pact provided for a $140,000,000 credit from Moscow, and fortnight ago, when 200 new Soviet planes, manned for the most part by Soviet pilots, appeared over China to make things hot for the Japanese...
Scoops were few. The U. P. got a beat on the first German soldier killed in Poland. H. R. Knickerbocker of I. N. S. cabled an exclusive on Hitler's statement that he would rather fight now than later. Headlines were big and bold, but not as big and bold as they could be. The Times used a 36-point, eight-column spread three times during the week, saved its 60-point for worse news. Outside of New York few papers increased the size of their headlines. Headline-of-the-week was the Daily News...
...real upswing came in 1934 when two things happened: 1) RCA began to remember and worry about its long dormant record business; 2) a brand new concern, Decca, entered the field with a sheaf of fresh ideas. Dapper, bespectacled Jack Kapp and his codirector, Edward R. Lewis, had long contended that what the country needed was a good 35? record (standard prices had previously ranged from 75? to $2). Signing up big names in the popular field (biggest: Crooner Bing Crosby-see p. 50), Decca put this contention to the test, and sales began to skyrocket. Today, the five-year...