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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Course nearly all o' us wood trade our false teeth an hot water bottles fer some o' th' good old apple butter agin. An if yer kin find some feller thet'll guarantee ter make as good apple butter as we use ter stir, all he's got ter do is tell us about it in TIME (an he woodn't need a big ad), and his fortune's made. Fer most all o' us wood be reglar customers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 11, 1937 | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

...with General Franco, this week comes to its climax-Aviator Dahl's trial. Moaned he last week: "I lie in this cell at night and think of her and myself alone together on some South Seas island. . . . Then I come to and say 'What's the use? I'm going to be bumped off by a firing squad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: 1,000 Miles | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

...projectiles. The Japanese lines crumbled under the swift, surprising blow ! More than 1,000 Japanese were killed and 10,000 Mongol and Japanese troops were disarmed. In the second battle our Communist troops penetrated clear to the rear of the Japanese lines by employing 'flying tactics' we used to use against Nanking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Shantung & Mah-Jongg | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

...This much is true: If somebody abstains from building a house, he can use the steel thus saved for casting cannon. But it is impossible to produce one single cannon from bank notes, for bank notes are paper and a cannon consists of steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Out Or In? | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

...English in Vatican City, the encyclical praises the Rosary, declares: "It requires, indeed, a simple and pious mind, but precisely for this reason, it educates the Christian unto a spirit of humility and that childlike simplicity which is spoken of in the Gospel." To his bishops the Pope recommends use of the Rosary as a counterattack on the Church's prime bugaboo, Communism. Thus. "As the terrible sect of Albigensians was overcome by the invocation of Mary, so, we hope, shall then be overcome those who, as Communists of today, remind us of them by their craftiness and violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Rosary v. Communism | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

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