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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pope Pius' death (TIME, Feb. 20) has fathered a moving piece of writing. If the next Pope is seen to compromise with totalitarianism, the deathbed scene of Pius XI will indeed seem to be taken from a new Götterdämmerung ; starring the vestiges of freedom still clinging to Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 13, 1939 | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

Idaho's ursine Borah, still weak from flu, denounced the air bill as dictated by "bluff and jitterism." His new junior colleague, pretty David Worth Clark, 36, made a maiden speech telling the U. S. to mind its own business. Minnesota's heavy Lundeen talked darkly of Presidential secrets which would "stun" and "shock" the country if revealed. California's white-crowned Hiram Johnson, North Dakota...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Huffs, Bluffs & Handcuffs | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

Last week, still Finance Chairman but never more strongly with the Opposition, Pat Harrison saluted Secretary Morgenthau's presence on Capitol Hill by issuing to the press a statement which met the Administration's monetary program headon. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Debt & Economy | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

Tennessee did not vote back its bars. Its new law permits package trade only, for cash not credit,* with the wet-dry option still reserved to each county. Tax: 70? the gallon on whiskey. To Boss Crump's wet Shelby County the only difference will be that thirsty Memphians need no longer drive over the Mississippi River bridge to the nearest liquor store, a big, hugely profitable emporium on the Arkansas shore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: Legal Toddy | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...Harvant is afraid that with a closed shop it won't be able to govern its employees. I don't think this is tree for we would still follow College orders. We would have to, or we would discredit our union and loss car jobs...

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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