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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...acquainted and lonely-hearts clubs. He was, he lied, a middle-aged dairyman with $100,000. The answers poured in, mainly from women between 35 and 50 (80%, overweight)-nurses, stenographers, club women, even a few plane-owners. Unasked and unequivocally, one out of three offered physical surrender on sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: White Slavery | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

...which was stamped a swastika). The party, taken to the Adlon Hotel to wash up, found their suite banked with "more flowers than had ever been in the hotel before." (There were also more steel-helmeted military sentries in the hotel than usual.) As a sobering sight, Nazis let Dr. Hácha review some troops while he waited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Time Table | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...surrealistic sight of a Parisian racing through his native streets with his head thrust through a cane chair-seat, a pair of garters streaming from his back and a license plate and a pot of vegetables in either hand, is not a sign of galloping national debility due to continental complications. Frenchmen know, and others soon learn, that the galloper is merely out to win the 200-franc ($5.30) prize, offered each afternoon by the private radio station Paste Parisien in its Course au Trésor, a radio scavenger hunt patterned after one which Paris loved in the droll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Course au Tr | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...Mississippi State College for Women lonely Freshmen these days are forced by upperclassmen to play a game combining the salient characteristics of "post office" and "dear lonely heart" which has resulted in a flood of fan mail addressed Harvard men, sight unseen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gals From South Bombard Harvard With Fan Letters | 3/21/1939 | See Source »

...have an eight-hour day. Before the union began organizing us, the College made us work our sight hours at any time it wanted. Some days we would get our jobs done early and other times we would have to work until 9:30 at night. The union put a stop to all this and forced the College to give us set hours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Typical College Waitress Belonging To A.F.L. Speaks of Labor Problems | 3/11/1939 | See Source »

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