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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What a marvelous thing it is to be able to roll along in this train in perfect peace!" said one of the Premier's aides. "The last time I was on a train back in Poland enemy aircraft dived every 20 minutes and machine-gunned the train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Warsaw to Angers | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...weeks after headgear is brought out as the new thing, it may be old hat. "Millinery . . . has no intrinsic value...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Mad Hatters | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Most splendiferous museum piece in Philadelphia's tradition-cluttered Independence Square is the twelve-story palace that houses 48-year-old Curtis Publishing Co. Most imposing thing about Curtis Publishing Co. is the combined circulation (8,406,431) of its publications: Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, Country Gentleman, Jack & Jill. Much less imposing are Curtis Publishing's dividends to its 18,961 stockholders (as of last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Philadelphia Plan | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...wife takes headache tablets which her frightened son inadvertently mixes up with poison after breaking a poison bottle. The doctor and the Austrian girl are held for murder. Sentenced to be hanged, he is comforted by the thought that other people find most disturbing: "Death is not the worst thing we have to face, only the last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Yale game upsets are a thing of the past, and now the CRIMSON seer can turn to more pleasant duties. Selecting All-Star elevens is lots of fun and there never is any proof that you were absolutely wrong. But here's a last batch of games and scores before the next football season opens about forty weeks from now. Boston College will reign supreme in New England tonight, paced by the stoutest line in the East. Navy 7 Army 0 Boston College 13 Holy Cross 7 Stanford 14 Dartmouth 7 Duquesne 13 Detroit 7 Fordham 20 N.Y.U. 7 Georgia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Football Scores | 12/2/1939 | See Source »

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