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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Negroes lead all other classes in wanting to fight Hitler, the poor are keener than the rich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: War Party? | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...George ("Geordie") Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duke of Sutherland, big-gaming, yachting, land-rich peer, who abandoned a Kodiak bear-hunting junket, headed his yacht Sans Peur (Without Fear) toward home and war service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Names | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

Hollywood's markets, it also, in the immediate future, reduced Hollywood's competition. British, French and German studios shut down, and their backlog of product could not last more than three months. Out of the running, they would leave U. S. pictures a free hand in the rich world market. Russia makes 95% of the pictures shown in its theatres, but all other countries are steady cinema customers of the U. S. India makes only 50% of its pictures, Japan only 35%, Italy, Yugoslavia, Mexico, Sweden and the South American countries all less than 10%. Playing this probability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shellshock | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...ever cavorted through a Louis Bromfield serial in Cosmopolitan, after the rain they seem sadly washed out and anticlimactic. Chief among them are Tom Ransome (George Brent), a remittance man from a good county family, his old flame Lady Edwina Esketh (Myrna Loy), who deserted him to find a rich husband, and Major Safti (Tyrone Power), the handsome, high-caste Indian surgeon for whom Lady Esketh wickedly sets her cap. While trying to keep his friend Safti out of Lady Esketh's clutches, Ransome has his hands full with a stage-struck missionary's daughter, Fern Simon (Brenda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 18, 1939 | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

Married. Anthony Drexel Duke, 21, grandnephew of tobacco-rich James B. ("Buck") Duke, founder of Duke University; and Alice Noel Rutgers, 19, one of whose forebears was land-rich Colonel Henry Rutgers, benefactor of Rutgers University; in Rumson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 18, 1939 | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

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