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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...read without moving their lips, also, for safety's sake, to an occasional pale pink radical with an orthodox Imperial slant to his ideas. The country's masses, politically ignorant and acquiescent because they are continually mesmerized by a puppet press masquerading as democratic, have yet to realize that they are on the outside looking in. Apart from occasional darts to the Left, dragging a red herring, and aside from plenty of cockney and dialectal comedy, which is really a "front," the British Broadcasting Corp. is essentially Gad-Sir-the-Empire Tory, and uncompromisingly for all that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Letters, Aug. 21, 1939 | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

...shall die yet, laughing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Troubadour | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...companies made killings. But by strengthening the industrial and financial power of the Basques and the Catalans, who were separatist in their politics, this war prosperity helped to undermine the monarchy. Spanish laborers drifted over the Pyrenees to France to work for war-time wages and sent money home. Yet with ownership of land and capital heavily concentrated in a few hands, peasants and stay-at-home workers failed to share in war profits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Background For War: The Neutrals | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

Noble-browed Polar Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, 59, published a book about Iceland (Iceland: The First American Republic), joined Local 537 of the New York College Teachers Union, because "as yet there is no union for polar explorers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 14, 1939 | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...week in a mood to let events take their course in order to tell Congress afterwards "I told you so." If there is no slump-the shoe will be on the other foot. Rather than sit back and tell the country to watch Congress ruin it, New Dealers may yet decide to go their own way and claim credit for saving business from the fate to which they claim Congress has doomed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: New Experiment | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

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