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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Record readers settled down to several hours' solid entertainment, for no man in Congress has such a gift for making two long words do the work of one short one. The range of his sesquipedalian verbal achievements spread from masterly Johnsonian periods on the occasion of "Remarks of Senator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Silver-Tongued Sunbeam | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

The University of Washington's arboretum is a lush, tree-planted, 260-acre park built by WPA, west of Seattle's exclusive Broadmoor district. It was the scene last week of a really glittering occasion. After speeches, orchestra music, ceremonies broadcast by radio, plump, close-coupled Collector of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Flashing Pioneers | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Whether he is describing the sick terror in a Berlin Jewish apartment, twilight in the New Forest, or a Gestapo going-over ("Mr. Emmanuel was not a very satisfactory subject, for he fainted almost at once, and twice again during the proceedings. But on each occasion a jug of cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jew into Germany | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

To the Mescalero Apache reservation in southern New Mexico last week went many a Navaho, Comanche, Kiowa and Oklahoma Apache tribesman, plus hundreds of white vacationists, to join the 800 Mescaleros in a tribal ceremony. Hosts were Paul and Charles Evans, rich Apaches. The occasion: presentation of their 16-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Debut | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

>This week- the 14th of July—France will celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Fall of the Bastille. This year the French Government is expected to outdo past performances in parading the power & splendor of French armed might on the Champs Elysées in Paris. Attending the celebrations will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: We Have Guaranteed | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

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