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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great tree and that picked warriors stood guard until a forest grew to hide the spot. Nevertheless, last week an Associated Press dispatch told with unhistorical assurance of a silver coffin from a shrine in Etshinhuro, Mongolia, which was carried with pomp and fire crackers through the Great Wall on its way to a hiding place in Western China far from Japanese raiders. Inside, insisted the A. P., was the dust of the Great Khan, the "perfect warrior and the Scourge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Khan's Dust? | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

ASHBEL T. WALL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 19, 1939 | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...feel that it was being jinxed, and so last fall Yale's junior prom committee wrote to Cartoonist Caniff and demanded a picture for Eli. Caniff knocked off a quick sketch of The Dragon Lady, which the committee blew up to enormous proportions and used as a wall decoration at the prom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Harvard and the Pirates | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...Forbears of the present Stock Exchange were securities auctioneers who began trading in 1792 under a buttonwood tree at 68 Wall Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Bawl Street | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...born by a Caesarean operation. In 1832, when ex-Philadelphia Jeweler Matthias W. Baldwin finished work on "Old Ironsides," his first born, he found it too big to go through the exit of his tiny shop. So, vowing he was through with locomotives, he cut a hole in the wall. But "Old Ironsides" surprised him, hit 28 miles an hour on the six-mile Philadelphia-Germantown run. That was fast enough to earn immortality as a locomotive pioneer. For Old Ironsides the end came in 1857 when a Vermont landslide mummified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Luck on Tidewater | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

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