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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deplorable conditions Scully said he found in his new Job. Without consulting his superior he began to correct them. Said he: "When there is a fire I don't wait to get permission to put it out." Inmates of a Los Angeles school for the blind were receiving harsh treatment, said he, from civil service employes. He questioned whether the death of a young inmate of Whittier State School near Los Angeles was suicide, as reported; said inmates were being grossly mistreated and cruelly punished. Last fortnight Dr. Rosanoff fired Frank Scully, later charged that affairs in Scully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Fun in Bed | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...last week New York City schools closed to let children take advantage of a special, eleventh-hour, five-cent admission to the local World's Fair. Besides those who went through the turnstiles, from 75,000 to 200,000 whooped in without paying a cent. And then they took over the Fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Giddy and Gaudy | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...They would never have taken that action if the German Government had not started it and set an example for it when they invaded Poland without any declaration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Growls, Grins | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Undaunted, Gadfly Stokes offered himself as a Labor candidate for the House of Commons in his traditionally Conservative district, talked persuasively about how Britain could rearm not only on a "no profit and no loss" basis, but even without incurring any further interest-bearing public debt, for the Government, explained Candidate Stokes, could simply issue "interest-free money." Ipswich thought so well of all this that she sent her Gadfly to the House of Commons with a landslide majority in February...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Ipswich Gadfly | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...Vatican City the news that a simple priest had become President-an event believed to be without precedent*-was received with anything but rejoicing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Priest into President | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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