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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME did err in one of these seven points: it was not Harvardman Allen but a member of the orchestra who made the gloomy, ungrammatical remark, "Things aren't like they used t be." For the rest, TIME does not take back what it said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 1, 1939 | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...adopted, the other, Mary, whose birth in 1950 cost Producer Jed Harris two weeks' pay for the rest of the cast of Coquette when Mother MacArthur's confinement closed the show. Unsuccessful defense by Mr. Harris: that Mary's birth was "an act of God." † Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt last fortnight "adopted" a Spanish Civil War orphan, Lorenzo Murias, 12, through an organization called the Foster Parents Plan for Children in Spain, by which refugee children are kept in France at a cost to U. S. foster parents of $9 per month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: Little Refugees | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...psychosis has taken the form of a question: Who will govern Britain if we are blown to Blarney? The Government's first answer to it was to divide all Britain into twelve administrative sections,* each of which would operate as an independent country if cut off from the rest. Last week 13 men were named to be "dictators" of those countries (London has two commissioners) should division take place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: If Necessary | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

With the "World of Tomorrow" poised for the kill, he was glad of the chance to rest. For ahead still lies the serious business of selling the world tomorrow. He has got the circus into his tent. Now he has to get the public into his circus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: In Mr. Whalen's Image | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

Last night Skip declared that today's contest will be a "good indication for the rest of the season, and will certainly be decided by a very close score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Stickmen Will Have Tight Game With M.I.T. Ten | 4/26/1939 | See Source »

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