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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hard for readers as for publishers because few and far between are the periodicals where the price readers pay covers the cost of the editorial matter they buy. The reason U. S. magazines and newspapers are by-and-large the best in the world is that U. S. businessmen spend enough money on advertising to pay a good part of the expense of publishing the quality of magazine to which the U. S. public is accustomed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: TIME to Legion | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

...they used to go to Mr. Justice Holmes, Harvard Law's top ranking graduates now spend a year with Mr. Brandeis as his secretaries. And through his close friend, Felix Frankfurter, Mr. Brandeis exerts a powerful humanizing influence in the nation's greatest law school. In Washington he and Mrs. Brandeis live in a comfortable, old-fashioned apartment at 2205 California Street, where the Justice, who never goes to his office in the Supreme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Old Men, New Battles | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

Over $1,000 a week of WPA funds have been allotted to the Office of Education Radio Project for this series. Columbia, putting it on as a sustaining program, will spend about three times as much. Inspired by the 1936 Buenos Aires conference, Commissioner Studebaker and Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles hatched the idea a year ago. The programs, based on careful historical research by a staff headed by Dr. Samuel Guy Inman, adviser to the U. S. delegates at Buenos Aires, are checked by university professors, Pan American Union authorities and the Office of Education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Brave New World | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

...present wave of juvenile Cain-raising traced to the children living in tenements adjacent to the Houses and the Law School offers a problem which the University will do well to recognize. Several hundred urchins of these neighborhoods spend their free time in conducting a sort of guerilla warfare against the University at large, and if their looting parties, their brick-throwing escapades and merry bonfires persist, some accident is likely to occur that will make Harvard authorities repent of their indifference...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEAD END | 11/13/1937 | See Source »

...Awful Truth" is that our heroine has been forced to spend the night with her music teacher in a wayside inn under perfectly honorable circumstances, but can't convince her husband of just how honorable it all was. In fact, she has a hard time convincing the audience. As a result she has to sue for divorce, and play the old, old role of the woman who wins her man by telling him how much she hates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/12/1937 | See Source »

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