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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from his nearby seat. Afterwards Ohio's Taft said: "It was just like making a speech any place else, except that the acoustics are terrible. I have a pretty good voice but I felt I had to shout to make people hear me." Presently he was chosen to read Washington's Farewell Address, shouted very nicely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Grab Bag | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Thus last week read an official Latin intimatio, delivered to the Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church who had arrived in Rome for this week's papal election. This document concerning the conclave was without doubt the most noncommittal which the Lord Cardinals received during the weekend. So intense and so unprecedented was the pre-election pestering of the Princes that several of them, including Milan's Cardinal Schuster, went into retreats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: According to Custom | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...sciences are critical in regard to the totalitarian theory and practice a dissipation of such sound theories among the Totalitarianists can only be beneficial. They may learn some common sense in this way. For this reason I would rather welcome and invite all the Totalitarianists to listen to to read, and to study the sound social science theories as much as they can. P. A. Sorokin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 2/28/1939 | See Source »

...Liberty (985 pages to 1,224 for Anthony Adverse). The book and the law of averages being what they are, no jackpot is likely to shower down. The Tree of Liberty, Elizabeth Page's first novel, took five years to write, will not take so long to read. Its breeziness is astounding, in view of the hot and heavy research the author did for it (32 huge collections of national, state, private records and letters, files of 26 periodicals, 183 biographies, histories, travel books, reference books). Its setting is Virginia from 1754 to 1806, easily the most fact-packed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Long Chance | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...Shick, Remington, Rand, and Sunbeam et al, would forestall that measure. Nor is it possible to require suppressors on all razors, for such regimentation is obviously impossible. Better to suppress the shavers themselves. Careful consideration, however, leads but to one conclusion; owners of electric razors must to all costs read their daily radio programs with great care. Let them learn when Paderewski, Artie Shaw, Bob Benchley, Bea Wain, Information Please, and other necessities of life are due; ten let them rap the daily harvest accordingly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BELOW THE BELT | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

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