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Dates: during 1930-1939
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>When a child makes a painting, don t ask "What is it" (he may answer "a dog," when it isn't a dog at all). Proper form of question: "Would you like to tell me about what you were doing?"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Parents, Relax! | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Last week things got out of hand in his office. Two more corporate safes were on their way to him. Busy rearranging his office to squeeze them in, he was thinking of moving to new quarters. The newcomers: big United Shoe Machinery Corp. (assets: $124,468,000), formerly of Paterson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: Gift Horses | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Anti-fascist in a typically Shavian way, Geneva makes fools rather than villains of the dictators. For that matter, it pretty well makes fools of everybody in the play. But at 83, G. B. S. is no longer foolproof himself. Despite some brilliant thrusts, he bumbles on far too long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Toronto: Nov. 13, 1939 | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

When Margin for Error was having its pre-Broadway tryout in Washington, the German Embassy obligingly gave it free publicity by protesting to Secretary Hull that the play was "derogatory" to the Reich. But, though the Nazi Consul is hardly a Chevalier Bayard, and Hitlerism is scarcely recommended to U...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 13, 1939 | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

This week Mrs. Baruch published a book (Parents and Teachers Go to School -Scott, Foresman & Co., $3) for parents and teachers, reporting what she had learned as amateur and professional, bumbling manifesto, her book sticks to specific cases, tells in detail how her nursery school straightened out many a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Parents, Relax! | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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