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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dempsey pressed his case. By last week both Rules Committees had decreed that henceforth radio should have "equal facilities" for covering Congress. Last week workmen began making part of the House visitors' gallery a radio gallery, and in the Senate the Rules Committee pondered whether to put radio right in with the press or give it a gallery of its own. This week, making Fulton Lewis' conquest of the Capital complete, White House Secretary Stephen Early issued permission for accredited radio men to attend White House press conferences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Gate Crasher | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...goatee when he was studying in Rome because he thought young musicians attracted too little attention, still defends the young U. S. composer with crotchety vigor. No modernist himself, he personally dislikes the dissonant groanings and thumpings of the musical Kulturbolschewiki. But he will defend to the death their right to groan and thump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Incubator | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Last week Tunesmith Cohan tried his aging right arm again. Before 1,500 approving members of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association in Manhattan, he sang his latest marching song. Its title: We Must Be Ready. Sample lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ready Cohan | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Sexpert Dr. Marie (Married Love) Stopes, 57, published a book of verse, Love Songs for Young Lovers, which impressed George Bernard Shaw ("You are a poet all right. It can't be helped") and Laureate John Masefield ("I hope you will write more poems like We Burn"). Of herself she said: "Like 'A. E.' and like Housman, I write poetry only when I am in a special state of excitation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 8, 1939 | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...Right Reverend Bishops who are willing to accede to this Petition are requested to communicate with The Honorary Secretary, The Panacea Society, Bedford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Servant Woman's Box | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

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