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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Munich was little more than two months old last week and had already begun to lose its foliage. In fact, Mr. Chamberlain was clutching not much more than a bare stick as he watched the "appeased" Germans unleash their full brutality against the Jews and agitate revolution in Rumania (see p. 15), as he watched the Rumanians shoot and jail their own Nazis, as he watched two wars still going on while French and Italians were worried about another (see...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Apparatus Oiled | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

Thanks for Everything (Twentieth Century-Fox), not to be confused with Thanks for the Memory (see p. 22). explodes the theory that a genuinely funny story would be out of place in musicomedy. Instead of a show-girl heroine who gets her name in lights in the last reel, it presents, without apologies, the sad case of Henry Smith (Jack Haley) of Plainville, Mo., winner of a $25,000 prize for the Average American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 19, 1938 | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...American Whaling Co.'s 6,400-ton Frango, mother ship and rendering plant for a fleet of six whale chasers. Last spring, when the Frango was about to set out for Shark Bay off Western Australia, the U. S. Coast Guard asked for a volunteer to see that no international treaty provision was violated. Lieutenant Thomas Robley Midtlyng, 29, volunteered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Whale Slaughter | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...Publisher Julius David Stern is a Jew, ''the worst crime in newspaper history." Their concern was justified when, on the day the Quaker delegation reached Berlin, Dr. Goebbels' organ Der Angriff sniggered: "We hope they will make themselves known. . . . Then we will know, you see, when to begin to quake-quake duly before the Quakers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Friends' Service | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

This Epstein did not do. All but seven of the drawings shown were directly derived from the text, reflected its despair and horror as well as its sensuous music. Examples: Danse Macabre, a female skeleton posturing on a bed, and Flowers of Evil (see cut), which even conservative London critics, shocked again, conceded to be true to the poet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Epstein's Baudelaire | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

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