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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sharpest hint that Caldwell has no intention of mellowing into a sharecropper humorist is A Knife to Cut the Corn Bread With...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Feeler | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

Please go after that reviewer with your sharpest invective and "stab his spirit wide awake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 28, 1938 | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

Hollywood labor, to which the present slump was merely the sharpest pinch of a long campaign of studio skimping & saving, fortnight ago engineered a general four-day work week agreement with the studios. And last week, the Screen Actors Guild was facing the problem of 4,000 members of the Guild's junior branch, chiefly extras and occasional players, for whom work has been so scanty that they have been unable to pay union dues. Since no actor in Hollywood can get a job without a Guild card, Guild officials were considering issuing temporary working cards to delinquents, permitting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hollywood Slump | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

Died. Kevin Butler. 33. son of U. S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Pierce Butler; of injuries suffered when he fell through a Pullman car lavatory window at "Devil's Bend.'' one of Pennsylvania Railroad's sharpest curves; at Greensburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 21, 1938 | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...called the Speaker, who is required to vote only in case of a tie. When Alabama's William Bankhead answered loudly "No!", there was a rattle of applause, then silence until the vote was counted. A few moments later, Speaker Bankhead announced the result of one of the sharpest legislative battles since the New Deal began. Said he: "Those voting Aye, 216; No, 198. The bill is recommitted to the Labor Committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: 216-to-198 | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

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