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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Saliva consists of that liquid derived from the three pair of salivary glands proximate and discharging into the mouth. The fluid substance removable after the playing of wind instruments consists mainly of condensed exhaled breath whose source is the lungs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 25, 1939 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...gathered the Roosevelt clan, some two dozen strong-with newest grandson, eight-month-old John Roosevelt Boettiger, coming East to take his first look at his famous grandfather. Ready as always was Grandmother Eleanor, her activities for the holiday week scheduled to the minute-six public Christmas tree ceremonies, three religious services, three celebrations in New York City, three separate White House children's parties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Green Christmas | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Deal ever since it tried to purge him last year, it gave the delicate job of chairman. With wealthy Lawyer Edmund Toland and 22 attorneys assisting (called brilliant legal lights by the Right, called tools of reaction by the Left), it checked on the work of the three members of the National Labor Relations Board, the doings of its 22 regional offices, its 109 field examiners, its 10,000 cases a year. Last week, with a formal flourish, Mr. Smith pulled back the curtains on his show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Labor's Safeguardians | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...seven executive committee members are more or less active supporters of the present Russian government. These individuals and their spiritual fellows though in a minority were able to muster what was, for some liberal members, a rather surprising show of hands in support of the most radical of the three motions; the one applauding Mr. Stalin for his recent display of benevolence and pacifism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 12/19/1939 | See Source »

LONDON--The British Admiralty announced today that three of Germany's six cruisers had been sunk or crippled and that these, together with the sinking of a German submarine and the "suicide" of the pocket battleship Graf Spee, brought to five the number of warships lost by the Germans since last Wednesday...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 12/19/1939 | See Source »

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