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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...architecture (TIME, Jan. 2) or to admit a deficit, San Francisco's fair is still in the competition with its naughty-naughties. Handicappers' current No. 1 choice is Sally Rand's troupe of cowgirls, wearing boots but no saddles on a "Dnude* Ranch" behind plate glass (see cut p. 16). Instead of "Midway," the fair's fun section is called "Gayway," which, although it means red-light district down South, sounds less bawdy to Western ears than "Barbary Coast," first and logical choice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Western Wonderland | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...Germany and Italy go to war against England and France, 71% of Democrats, 69% of Republicans, 65% of other partisans think the U. S. should "do everything possible to help England and France win, except go to war ourselves" (Gallup-see...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mood | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...that anyhow Europe had best be left to take care of itself-they want a big stick just in case, and 2) those who want to stand up on top of the barricade, shake the stick in such an unequivocal manner that the dictators will mend their ways (see...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Who's for War? | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

Oddly enough, about the only people who were sorry to see part-Jewish Premier Imredy go were the Jew-hating German Nazis. Premier Imredy, while obliged to jail Hungarian Nazi Leader Major Ferenc Szalasi for seditious activities, nevertheless had proved amenable to Nazi ideas. The Premier last month announced plans to bring Hungary into the German-Italian-Japanese Anti-Comintern Pact. His racial laws were in some respects even sterner than the Nazis' own Nürnberg decrees. And the Premier had planned to suspend Parliament and set up a totalitarian, one-party State with himself as probable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Embarrassing Discovery | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...ardent winter sports fan, Princess Fawziya reportedly fell in love with the Crown Prince during a holiday trip to Switzerland two years ago. Like modern-minded young Queen Farida she wears the veil, in deference to Moslem custom, but lets it hang loosely about her neck (see...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Love Match | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

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