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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could have secured his objectives by this display of force he might have been content for the moment, with all the additional prestige which another bloodless success would have procured for him with his own people. But it would only have been to start again once the world had recovered from the shock, and even his own people were beginning to be tired of these repeated crises. . . . Guns instead of butter were becoming more and more unpopular except with the younger generation, and Hitler may well have wondered what might happen to his Nazi revolution if its momentum were allowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: White Papers: More Good Reading | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...last August Earl Jones made up his mind to start a newspaper of his own. He set wreckers to work tearing down a three-story apartment house one block off Zanesville's main street. When he learned that the job would take two weeks, he brought in crews and equipment from his mines, wrecked the building overnight. Then, under floodlights, working night & day, his men started putting up a new $75,000 brick, steel and concrete newspaper plant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: 59-Day Wonder | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Today there are at least twelve women's symphony orchestras* in the U. S. Oldest: the Los Angeles Women's Symphony which has been flouncing its fiddle-bows for more than 40 years. Finest: the Chicago Woman's Symphony, which last week got to the start of its 15th season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Solomon's Wives | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

After a late and humdrum start, the new season at last unrolled its red carpet and put on a white tie last week. On three successive nights celebrities and sophisticates flocked to welcome their favorite comedy-writing team, their favorite musicomedy-writing team, one of their two favorite actresses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Harts & Flowers | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...young people. He has given it a headlong pace, a slam-bang zest and zip. Too Many Girls is in no one respect outstanding, but it doesn't need to be: it is simply one of those right-as-rain shows that don't stall at the start, break down in the middle, or run out of gas before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Harts & Flowers | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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