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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First in another field was NEA Service, when in Texas-born Roy Crane's Wash Tubbs native girls were pictured dancing naked though mud-daubed (see cut), on a South Sea island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: First Strips | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...struck for a closed shop. Deputized vigilantes from nearby towns and farms shot down five pickets, took over the dam site, behaved so raucously that Colorado's Governor Ralph L. Carr dispatched National Guardsmen to suppress "a state of insurrection." Distressed by the bloodshed, put out by delay, Roy Warner remembered his wise, calm friend in Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Maguire of Green Mountain | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...Quaker, a Pacifist, a Laborite, an independent Laborite-walked out the door that signified they were voting against the measure; 457 members walked out on the Government side. Politically, Great Britain was ready for war. The King put his hand to the measure in the traditional Norman phrase: "Le roy le veult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: War Is Very Near | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...Oregon: Roy B. Erickson, 17, Portland; Roosevelt High School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Opens Portals to 1000 Incoming Men As Start of 304th Academic Session Approaches | 9/1/1939 | See Source »

Producer Mervyn Le Roy's 1939 version of this childhood classic follows with reasonable accuracy L. Frank Baum's original story (first published in 1900) that sold over a million copies, his stage adaptation that ran 18 months on Broadway with Fred Stone.* Dorothy (Judy Garland) gets blown away in a twister from her home in Kansas, finds herself in the Technicolor land of Oz. Homesick, she goes in search of the Wizard of Oz to ask him how to get back to Kansas. Along the way she meets a Straw Man (Ray Bolger), a Tin Woodman (Jack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 21, 1939 | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

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