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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only Parliamentary session ever opened by King Edward VIII (TIME, Nov. 9, 1936), and for the first meeting this week of the first Parliamentary session to be opened by King George VI, there was every reason why the Chamberlain Cabinet must score quickly a triumph of some sort, preferably in foreign affairs. It would not do to have Parliament convene for the winter with His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs actually cutting the figure he was shown cutting last week in a London Evening Standard cartoon by No. 1 British Cartoonist David Low. In this...
...proper course to be pursued, none of its officials wants to give Britain or France the impression that the U. S. is prepared to take the lead in checking Japan. Therefore, Franklin Roosevelt added to his fireside chat announcing an extra session of Congress (see col. 3). a sort of postscript on peace...
Released to first-run houses all over the U. S. fortnight ago, Vol. 4 No. 2 had been doing a big business for two weeks, but last week it made news ot a different sort in New York City. New York is currently in the throes of a mayoral election campaign in which photogenic Mr. LaGuardia is being opposed by Mr. Jeremiah T. Mahoney, who is the Democratic candidate. Tammany Hall still controls the Borough of Manhattan pretty thoroughly and Radio City's Music Hall, M. O. T. first-run house in New York...
Entertaining a whimsy that insects regard him as a sort of Puck, Bugman Teale proceeded to produce a primer of diminutive backyard life, free of entomological erudition. To be sure he recalls that nine out of ten living creatures are insects, that 6,500 new insect species are classified every year, that the total number of species may some day reach 10,000,000. More important, with sundry ruses and infinite patience he succeeded in photographing an insect-eye view of the world with which to illustrate lives of 18 wild beasts of the grassroots...
...Civil War nor in Reconstruction times were the successes of the Union forces in Texas anything to brag about. In fact, with its post-Civil War collection of desperate Southern aristocrats, filibusterers and assorted bad men, their plots and generally seditious hell-raising, Texas looked like just the sort of a place for another rebellion to cut loose. Against this hot-blooded, nearly forgotten background, Texas-born U. S. Marine Major John W. Thomason Jr. (Fix Bayonets!, Jeb Stuart), grandson of Longstreet's Chief of Staff, spins the yarn of Gone to Texas, a pleasant, fast-moving romance about...