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Dates: during 1930-1939
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He does not state, as he should if he wanted to be fair, that his confirmation was rushed through within a few hours of the announcement of his appointment. Organized labor had no opportunity to protest.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 28, 1939 | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

First. A President didn't get that way through being "unpolitical." Herbert Hoover's Addresses Upon the American Road, 1933-1938, is crowded with proof that an ex-President never stops campaigning for the good old party-and to hell with the country!

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 28, 1939 | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

Son of a Saginaw, Mich. dressmaker, Bill Watson-who is earning his way through college by waiting on table and acting as secretary to Prize Fighter Joe Louis-is considered the best all-round track man in the U. S. Besides winning the Big Ten championship in the shot put...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Preview | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

Tibet is a windswept highland where the chief drink is buttered tea, the chief fuel is yak dung, and a stuck-out tongue is a friendly greeting. Faith of the 3,000,000 Tibetans-and of other millions throughout the fastnesses of Central Asia-is Lamaism, a theocratic form of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: 14th Reincarnation | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

Until his satisfactory identification through omens, portents, visions & oracles, this 14th reincarnation of Buddha was a 5-year-old peasant boy named Tanchu, "quiet mannered with bright penetrating eyes." Now Tanchu will live in a gold-domed penthouse atop the Potala, his massive fortress-palace at Lhasa, spend the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: 14th Reincarnation | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

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