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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made up of truth and belief; and, if he is deceived into the belief that he has, or is liable to have, a disease, the belief is catching and the result follows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: New Thought | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

Down across the Wisconsin-Illinois border last week the spunky little Madison Capital Times (circulation: 28,000) shouted a remarkable challenge to the Goliath-like Chicago Tribune (circulation 900,000). The challenge: Let Tribuneman Chesly Manly prove the truth of a certain statement in one of his recent dispatches from Washington, and the Capital Times would immediately pay $1,000 to any charity the Tribune might name. The statement in question: "La Follette's so-called [Civil Liberties Committee] inquiry was conceived by John L. Lewis, dictator of the C. I. O. and political ally of Mr. Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: $1,000 Dare | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...truth is that science knows little about the cause of these phenomena which are continually affecting our lives. Up to a few years ago meteorologists carried on weather forecasts mainly from what the present weather maps show--that is, horizontal, cyclical movements. But it is becoming increasingly evident that vertical currents while harder to locate, are equally important...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOOD-OLD-DAYS POLICY | 11/4/1938 | See Source »

...Deal Jouett (Liberty League) Shouse working for WPA. Not on work relief, serious-looking Elizabeth Shouse, 26, was hired last month as an expert to supervise the work of 14 WPAsters repairing school books in the District of Columbia. Pay: $136 a month. Said Miss Shouse with obvious truth: "No political pull was involved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Liberty's Daughter | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

...gross yet elegant, affected yet honest, repellent yet fascinating figure who plunged from dazzling fame to indelible disgrace, is to tackle a subject even more difficult than it is dramatic. Leslie & Sewell Stokes have treated the story in the only possible right way: they have told the plain, unvarnished truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 24, 1938 | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

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