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Dates: during 1930-1939
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OVER 3,200 LETTERS, POST CARDS AND TELEGRAMS HAVE JUST BEEN FORWARDED HERE FROM CRUM ELBOW. OVER A THOUSAND WERE RECEIVED BEFORE I LEFT. OUT OF ALL THESE, ONLY FOUR COMMUNICATIONS-TWO LETTERS AND TWO POST CARDS ALL ANONYMOUS, CONTAIN ADVERSE CRITICISM AND ABUSE IN THE RECENT EFFORT TO TEST THE ECONOMIC THEORIES OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND FATHER DIVINE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 22, 1938 | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...published as a Modern Library Giant (TIME, May 23). The original edition, cautiously figured to last six months, was 10,000 copies. With few critics paying it attention, it sold out in eleven days. A second edition of 20,000 copies has now dwindled to its last few thousand copies, and Freud has come back as the fastest-selling reprint throughout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Freudian Revival | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...dedicates the Thousand Islands Bridge across the St. Lawrence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Return of Ulysses | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

President Roosevelt (Mon. 10:30 p.m., NBC-Blue, CBS, MBC) speaks from Hyde Park, N. Y. to mark the third anniversary of the Social Security Act. Thurs. 11 a.m., receives honorary LL.D. from Queen's University at Kingston, Ont. 2:45 p.m., dedicates the new Thousand Islands International Bridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Programs Previewed: Aug. 15, 1938 | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

...these companies strike deep production- long suspected in Cuba's lower Cretaceous (Chalk) region-it may set off a boom as loud as the sugar spree, or as wild as the first days of the East Texas field when land worth ten dollars one day was worth a thousand the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PETROLEUM: Cuban Dream | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

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