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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prevalent Oedipus complex, broadened to encompass resentment of authority and pompous persons in high places, is betrayed by a number of limericks which demean the King of Siam, the King of Baroda, the Queen of Baroda and other dignitaries, public and private...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Beneath Genteel Externals | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

Says Carroll: "I write as Ibsen did. I take the life of a small village and enlarge it to encompass all human life." It is finding a theme that takes time with him; writing comes easy. He plans no more religious plays. The theme of his next work, Kindred, is that a common love for art can bind people more strongly than blood or nationality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 23, 1939 | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...John." Franklin Roosevelt announced that he was in favor of price reductions, opposed to wage reductions (see p. 7). John Lewis addressing his miners went further, opposed both kinds of reductions, fearing that one would lead to the other. Said he: "All we need now in this country to encompass and insure a complete and most devastating economic, social and political debacle is to reduce the prices of commodities and reduce the wage structure. . . . How many years did we try that policy during the Administration of former President Hoover?" At the word "Hoover"' the delegates sent up a mighty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Miners v. Miami | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...sent to Congress his program for governmental reorganization. Vastly vexed by this Presidential move was Virginia's Harry Flood Byrd, not only because he had been about to take the spotlight with a reorganization plan of his own, but also because the President's program failed to encompass the economies which the Vir ginia Senator champions. The. RFC extension bill gave him his first chance to trans late his displeasure into action. He rose in the Senate to object...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Jesse Jones's Friends | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

...things stand, students of the universe use Relativity mathematics and atomists use Quantum Mechanics. Princeton's Einstein has promised to devote the rest of his life to the search for and the formulation of a Unified Field Theory which will encompass all Nature. He has laid promising foundations (TIME, July 15, 1935). Other work on the problem has been done by Britain's Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, German Exile Max Born, France's Elie Cartan. Last week another approach was suggested by Dr. George David Birkhoff of Harvard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Holiday | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

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