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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"I do not see how anyone who has gone through this drought area can say a kind word for nature's method of crop re- duction," observed Secretary of Agriculture Wallace to an audience of North Dakota farmers at Bismarck. "Man's methods may be full of imperfections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: At Last, Rain | 6/18/1934 | See Source »

Died. Thomas William Jackson, 67, humorist; by his own hand (revolver); in Mineral Wells. Tex. Most famed of his works was On a Slow Train Through Arkansas.* one of 13 pulp booklets widely sold for 25? each by "news butchers" on Western and Midwestern local and "accommodation" trains 30 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 18, 1934 | 6/18/1934 | See Source »

For the first time in 14 years it rained for the Bond Club of New York's annual field day last week. The rain annoyed a troupe of women swimmers and divers hired for entertainment more than it did the 300 members who journeyed to the Sleepy Hollow Country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bawl Street | 6/4/1934 | See Source »

The Black Cat (Universal), "suggested" by Edgar Allan Poe's famed story of a murderer's retribution, takes place in a sleek modernistic house built by a demented Austrian (Boris Karloff) on the remains of a World War fortress. A bus accident one stormy night sends into this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 28, 1934 | 5/28/1934 | See Source »

Dinner guest of the President was vacationing Novelist H. G. Wells.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Roosevelt Week: May 21, 1934 | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

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