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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House of Saturday, August 5, was not the House it had been all week. The fever of killing had subsided. Members' shoes were full of feet; all they wanted was to go home. Throughout the week the slickly oiled Republocratic machine, working efficiently under the Republican strategy triumvirate of Leader Joseph Martin and Michigan's Mapes and Wolcott, had guillotined Administration spending bills while Congressional wives knitted excitedly in the galleries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Blood on the Saddle | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

Repercussions came immediately, spread throughout the U. S. Attorney General Frank Murphy, whose dark red eyebrows are ranked third in Washington below Lewis' and Garner's, had a reporter reread Lewis' statement to him, chuckled heartily, said aloud: "That's too eloquent for comment," then sotto voce to a nearby reporter: "It's a sinful world." (Mr. Murphy and the entire press section of the Justice Department spent the rest of that day and evening, in hasty afterthought, insisting he had not correctly understood the statement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: 25 Lousy Cents! | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Photographer Harold Field Smith was back in Seattle last week after chasing two bloodhounds through the Cascades for his paper, the Times. Famed throughout the Northwest are Smitty's high, fiendish laughter, his admiration for pregnant women ("I love 'em! God, I love 'em"), the hissing gibberish he talks to visiting Japanese dignitaries, his bounding glandular energy. To get a picture of the late Queen Marie of Rumania, Smitty grabbed the royal thigh and held the Queen in her automobile. To get a picture of Rachmaninoff he played Chopsticks on the master's piano until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Old Timers | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...example that is "a decided step in the realization of the true purpose of the National Gallery." No new thing to self-effacing Philanthropist Kress is example setting. For some years now he has been giving and lending noteworthy pieces from his collection to small but deserving museums throughout the nation. San Antonio, Charlotte, N. C., Montgomery, Wichita, Seattle, Memphis, Phoenix, Savannah and Macon have received permanent additions to their collections. New York, San Francisco, Milan and Brescia, Italy are currently exhibiting temporary loans of Kress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Uncle Sam to Uncle Sam | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...Famed throughout Texas grew Pitchfork Smith's thunderous writings, his private battles, his oratorical eloquence. Old timers still quote from his street-corner oration on the death of John Barleycorn, the night before Prohibition took effect. One of his speeches ("When You Die, Will You Live Again?") was so highly esteemed by one P. S. Harris, president of Lucky Tiger Remedy Co., that Mr. Harris gave The Pitchfork a lifetime advertising contract, reprinted the speech and sent copies to every barbershop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: End of Old Pitch | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

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