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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jeff Davis died that year in New Orleans. A week later Robert Browning died. Jack the Ripper murdered his eighth victim, and Nellie Ely set sail around the world. The last of Bismarck's dangerously radical social legislation was passed. North and South Dakota, Washington and Montana were admitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Welshman's 50th | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

Author of most of the Telegram's weather stories is a thin, sharp-featured little man named Harry Allen Smith.* Raised in Huntington, Ind., he quit school after the eighth grade to work as a proofreader on the local paper, rose to write funeral notices, sports, a column. Smith saw the U. S. as an itinerant reporter, worked five years for United Press as a feature writer, landed on the Telegram three years ago. He once began an interview with Cinemactress Simone Simon thus: "Your reporter walked straight up to her, without so much as a hello, and tickled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Weather Gagman | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...fifth and eighth, Harvard scored all runs without one safety. In fact, the Nassau players outhit the home team, 10 to 8, but also chalked up more errors...

Author: By Theodore R. Barnett, | Title: Stahlmen Take Fifth Straight As Healey, Brackett Coast To Victory | 4/29/1939 | See Source »

Cunning for their eighth victory in nine starts, Coach Adolph Samborski's slugging 1942 diamond team, takes on the Boston University freshman nine on Soldiers Field at four o'clock this afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hard-Hitting Samborskimen Face Boston U. '42 Batters | 4/26/1939 | See Source »

...what will be the American premiere of Emlyn Williams' romantic comedy, "He Was Born Gay", the Harvard Dramatic Club is rounding into shape its fifty-eighth production. The amusing drama of Napolconic England will be presented at the Peabody Playhouse in Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dramatic Club Prepares to Present "He Was Born Gay" | 4/25/1939 | See Source »

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