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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME of Feb. 27 you mention that some Catholic friends of the [Chicago Newspaper] Guild assailed Bishop Shell's "scabbery" but after "a quiet word from Bishop Shell's office," ceased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 13, 1939 | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...unto Thee for this Thy servant, Franklin, upon whom is laid the responsibility for the guidance of this Nation. Let Thy fatherly hand, we beseech Thee, ever be over him; let Thy Holy Spirit ever be with him; and so lead him in the knowledge and obedience of Thy word, that in the end he may obtain everlasting life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Thy Servant, Franklin | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

Harry Brown '41 is one of the winners of the Shelley Memorial Award in poetry for 1938, according to word received here. The prize amounts to $475. The other recipient is Robert Francis of Amherst...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harry Brown Wins Shelley Memorial Award for Poetry | 3/7/1939 | See Source »

...possible exception of Eugene O'Neill, Anderson shows more genius in handling his script than any other play-wright. An actor can't rush through his lines the way he can with other play-wrights. Each speech must be digested and presented so that the audience can grasp every word...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Walter Huston Condemns Hollywood's Long Hours, Easy Money for Actors | 3/7/1939 | See Source »

...serious poem written by a major poet. . . . Any poem, on the other hand, ending with 'And how' comes under the head of light verse, written by a minor poet." Or his suggestion for a digest to end digests, "which condensed a Hemingway novel to the single word 'Bang!' and reduced a long Scribner's article about the problem of the unruly child to the two words 'Hit him.' " The most polished baiter of TIMEstyle extant, he includes A Guide to the Pronunciation of Words in TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Humorist | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

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