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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor Eurith D. Rivers proclaimed a Statewide holiday, prepared to call out the National Guard. Atlanta's Mayor William B. Hartsfield proclaimed a three-day festival. To Georgia it was like winning the battle of Atlanta 75 years late, with Yankee good will thrown in and the direct assistance of Selznick International (which made the picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Appropriate was it that Mrs. Rice's most prized possession should go to Philadelphia. From Philadelphians she inherited two fortunes, totaling some $60,000,000-one from her father, Oilman William L. Elkins, the other from her first husband, George D. Widener, who with her elder son went down with the Titanic in 1912. In memory of her son she gave the Widener Memorial Library to Harvard. At its dedication in 1915 she met Explorer Rice, himself a millionaire. Four months later they were married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Brother-in-Law | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Washington, D. C., Lloyd S. Booze was indicted on a charge of holding up the liquor store of a man named Seltzer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oddest | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Alan Gottlieb '41, president of the chapter here, will lead the Harvard delegation. Accompanying him are G. Robert Stange '41, vice president. David Fleischman '41, secretary, Paul Olum '40, Avram S. Goldstein '40, Irwin Ross '40, William Rossmore '40, Arthur Kinoy '41, Max D. Gaebler '41, John A. Rolabird, Jr. '49, Robert G. Nassau '48, Walter K. Rosen '42, Sidney Jackson '48, and Andrew E. Nice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: S. U. NAMES ENVOYS TO NATIONAL CONVENTION | 12/19/1939 | See Source »

...those toys are too damn good to be wasted on infants who don't know how to enjoy them properly. Frankly, Vag could use an electric train this Christmas. His roommates wouldn't laugh. They're a bit sheepish on the subject--but Vag bets they'd play too. So, could you spare one train--just a little one? Into the ashcan with false sophistication! Vag is going to hang a hopeful stocking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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