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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...LIFE OF J. M. W. TURNER, R. A. -A. J. Finberg-Oxford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books of the Year | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...State tried to show that Maverick and his co-defendants conspired to spend Maverick money in 50? pieces to pay the $1.50 poll tax for an I. L. G. W. U. member so he could help elect him. (By Texas law, no one can vote without paying a poll tax.) Defense maintained that the money was spent legally for campaign purposes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Mavericks' Maury | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...mother accused of starving her children so she could buy herself new dresses, Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio last week called the whole thing a lie, invited the gossips to mind their own business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OHIO: Heartless | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...second yearbook. This time, instead of 133 experts he had 245, among them such famed testers and educators as University of London's Charles Spearman, Yale's Edward S. Noyes, Iowa's Carl Seashore, Harvard's Charles Swain Thomas, University of Chicago's Ralph W. Tyler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Now, Oscar! | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...least remarkable part of this 300% increase in production is the new plant. It will double P. & W.'s floor space, and the building will cost United not a dime. To speed up deliveries on orders for $60,000,000 or more worth of warplane engines and an additional $12,000,000 of propellers (which went next door to United's Hamilton Standard division), France has already advanced $1,500,000 to $2,000,000 to erect the new factory. The cost will be defrayed by Pratt & Whitney gradually by a small charge on each engine delivered until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Silver Platter | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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