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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Second, after the outbreak of hostilities Germany addressed France and England with peace proposals while the Soviet Union openly supported Germany's peace proposals because it believed and continues to believe that the earliest termination of the war would fundamentally alleviate the position of all countries and nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Stalin for Peace? | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Married. Oscar Levant, 32, composer, pianist, glib-libbing expert on Canada Dry's Information Please program; and June Gilmartin, 24, cinemactress (June Gale); he for the second time, she for the first; in Fredericksburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Divorced. Eleanor ("Cookie") Young Bacon, 21, first Manhattan society Glamor Girl (1936); from Socialite Robert Ogden ("Bunty") Bacon Jr., 24, after eight months of married life, in Hailey, Idaho. It was her first divorce, his second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Gestures in which Darwin displayed greatest interest were: 1) monkey-like "contraction of muscles around the eyes just before crying"; and 2) pouting. "A dear young lady near here," he wrote, "plagued a very young child for my sake, till he cried and I saw the eyebrows for a second or two beautifully oblique, just before the torrent of tears began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Daddy Darwin | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...been arrested on a charge of second-degree burglary for breaking into a neighbor's home, making off with two caged birds and a radio, which he said were really his. (Case was dismissed.) He had gone to Reno, hoping to persuade Mrs. Knight to drop her suit, "succeeded only in creating a rumpus," according to the New York Daily Mirror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Knight's Gambit | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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