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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Majority Leader Rayburn: "[The President] is doing a beautiful and generous thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Jul. 24, 1939 | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...lucky thing for anthropology that Dr. Ales Hrdlicka (pronounced ah-leesh hurd-leech-ka), famed fossil man of the Smithsonian Institution, was in Moscow last week. A young Soviet archeologist named A. P. Okladnikoff announced the discovery of a fossilized Neanderthal skeleton on a high cliff in "Middle Asia." The bones were those of a child eight or nine years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Precious Child | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...paper back and immediately began publishing it in the old way: calling for the restoration of Alfonso. Franco tried to get rid of Luca de Tena by offering him an embassy, but Don Juan Ignacio refused. Last month A. B. C. published a defiant pro-Monarchist editorial. Next thing its readers knew, it had encountered a "shortage of paper" and folded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Last Editions | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

Original director of the Workshop was Irving Reis, a swarthy, jittery onetime control-room engineer who thought the production, not the play, was the thing, and who sweated with oscillators, electrical filters, echo chambers to produce some of the most exciting sounds ever put on the air-Gulliver's voice, the witches in Macbeth, footsteps of gods, the sound of fog, a nuts-driving dissonance of bells, the feeling of going under ether. When Director Reis left the Workshop-which also graduated an even more celebrated member, Orson Welles-it was run for a time by handsome, long-armed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Prestige Programs | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

With its factories and offices only a two-hour bomber hop from Nazi air bases, British industry has plenty to think about. One thing it is thinking about is how to induce aging members of boards of directors to get physically fit to replace younger men called to the colors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Test | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

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