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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Representative James Montgomery ("Constitution") Beck: "It should be called the Wicked Sham Commission."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Wicker shambles | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

"Flutter" is the name given to a rapid, rippling vibration which most commonly affects the unsupported wing of a monoplane, sometimes causing it to tear apart, but which at high speeds may affect the tail. Working with a model of the crashed plane, the investigators found it could not have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Buffeting v. Flutter | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

"Small wonder, therefore, if holy writ bears witness that the Divine Majesty regards with greatest detestation this horrible crime, and at times has punished it with death. As St. Augustine notes, intercourse even with one's legitimate wife is unlawful and wicked where the conception of the offspring is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pope v. Poisoned Pastures | 1/19/1931 | See Source »

P. A." is, like all his leading New York contemporaries except Heywood Broun, no native New Yorker. In 1903 he inherited a colyum, "A Little About Everything" in the Chicago Journal. Next year he went to the New York Evening Mail to conduct a feature named, by Publisher Henry L...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Tower | 1/5/1931 | See Source »

Shylock as a stage character has been the subject of many various interpretations. For Fritz Leiber he was almost a tragic hero, while George Arliss played the role as a fawning and thoroughly wicked villain. In this latest production of "The Merchant of Venice" now playing at the Tremont, Mr...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 11/14/1930 | See Source »

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