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Dates: during 1930-1939
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An engaging job of muckraking is America's House of Lords. Author Ickes sounds like what he is: a public official who has on occasion been irritated beyond endurance by things he read in the papers. Having said his piece, he concludes: "I feel better about the American press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Debate Continued | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

What's New (Bing Crosby; Decca). Once more Crooner Crosby illuminates a dull song by singing it as though it were the best he had ever heard.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: November Records | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

From his researches Père Jousse concluded that it was possible to reconstruct not only what Jesus said, but how He said it, from texts in Aramaic-the language which many believe that Jesus spoke, and which Père Jousse believes is admirably fitted for eloquent gesturing. To...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Rhythmocatechist | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

For relief from British broadcasting, especially on Sundays, pre-war Britishers had simply to twirl their radio dials to Radio Normandie, Luxembourg, Juan-les-Pins or any of the other gay, Continental "outlaw" stations. Outlaws they were because, unlike BBC, they carried advertising. Favorites they were for variety, swing, snap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Swing and Mr. Nasty | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

When every U. S. radio listener was gulping in the bulletins on World War II, just starting, Manhattan's WMCA scooped its competitors. It bought and broadcast the content of secret radio war orders from the German and British admiralties to merchantmen at sea. This was an obvious violation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Rebuke | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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