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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thin-skinned Lawyer Scott, able Catholic layman, good friend of Herbert Hoover, be less umbrageous. No insult to Catholics was intended by a good old English term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 6, 1939 | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...general secretary and No. 1 front man, crook-mouthed Earl Browder, so testified to the Dies Committee last September, he put himself in danger of a second Federal imprisonment. (In 1917 he was jailed as a conscientious objector to World War I.) Last week the possibility of a second term for Earl Browder, and imprisonment for many another big-name Communist, was brought measurably nearer by the U. S. Department of Justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Curious Coincidence | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...getting into the war is concerned, Sorokin says, "Up to 1940 elections there will be no chance of our getting in, but after that only Almighty God and the politicians know." He thinks Roosevelt will probably get elected for a third term if he chooses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sorokin Says He Prefers an Unjust Peace to Long Lasting European War | 10/28/1939 | See Source »

Lawrence G. Ebb '39 and William P. Bundy, Yale '39, were announced yesterday as coaches for the teams and as critic judges for the debates. Ebb served as president of the Debating Council last year and during his term of office conceived and organized the present system of inter-House debating...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOUSE DEBATERS OPEN SEASON NEXT TUESDAY | 10/27/1939 | See Source »

...that there is a profession in it. His anthologies of modern poetry have sold 478,081 copies in the U. S.* getting stouter with every edition. They are standard in newspaper libraries, as obituary material on poets, and indispensable to teachers of literature, as candy at the end of term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poets & Untermeyer | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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