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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Books (TIME, March 6) you reviewed a mystery novel entitled The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, with these words: "Detective Marlowe is plunged into a mess of murderers, thugs, and psychopaths who make the characters of Dashiell Hammett and James Cain look like something out of Godey's Lady's Book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 20, 1939 | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...Third Republic of France, in 69 years of sturdy life, has had 14 Presidents. Of these only five have served their full seven-year terms-Emile Loubet, Armand Falliéres, Raymond Poincaré, Gaston Dou-mergue. Jules Grévy. Six have resigned. Adolphe Thiers, Marshal MacMahon and Alexandre Millerand quit under political pressure. Jules Grévy tried a second term, left when his son-in-law was caught trafficking in Legion of Honor decorations. Casimir Périer got disgusted with his job. Paul Deschanel went crazy, tried to commit suicide by jumping out of a train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: M. le President | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...really shouldn't like Harvard a great deal, since I went to Oxford for a year and our ancient rival, Cambridge, gave a degree to John Harvard," declared Raymond Massey, star of "Abe Lincoln in Illinois," after a recent matinee performance of the New York...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Raymond Massey Left Oxford to Fight, Discounts College Influencing Career | 3/18/1939 | See Source »

Lionized by convention delegates was the supposed author of this spoofery, tousle-haired Harold Raymond Wayne Benjamin, Ph.D., director of the College of Education of University of Colorado, onetime cowboy, fisherman, soldier, who can roll two cigarets at once. Dr. Benjamin admitted writing a foreword to the book, of the rest would say only that "It was not written by [Columbia University President] Nicholas Murray Butler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Saber-Tooth Curriculum | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...SLEEP-Raymond Chandler-Knopf ($2). Detective Marlowe is plunged into a mess of murderers, thugs and psychopaths who make the characters of Dashiell Hammett and James Cain look like something out of Godey's Lady's Book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: February Mysteries | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

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