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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Ghazi ibu Feisal. 27. second King of Iraq (first: his late, famed father Feisal, placed on the throne by Great Britain in 1921 at the instance of "Lawrence of Arabia"); near Bagdad; in an automobile accident. Ghazi loved speed, had a Mercedes coated with phosphorescent paint, a U. S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 10, 1939 | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

This is the precocious first novel of a precocious bricklayer. Born 28 years ago in the slums of West Hoboken, N. J., handsome Pietro di Donato was 14 when his father was killed in a construction accident, leaving a widow and eight children. Pietro, a "bricklayer in diapers," took up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bricklayer | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

When he heard about the accident, Germany's Field Marshal Hermann Göring, who, long before he got too paunchy to slide into a cockpit, served as a commercial pilot in Sweden, offered to make Sweden a present of a new, fully-equipped air-ambulance worth 450,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: Silver Shield | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

Like all but a handful of league hockey players, 35-year-old Eddie Shore is a Canadian and a scrapper. In his time he has overdone the latter, as a result has none of his own teeth left. His nose has been broken ten times. In one fracas with the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mightiest Bruin | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

In Pueblo, Colo., a jury awarded $5,830 damages to A. H. Ordener from John Dilley for the death of Ordener's son in an automobile-truck accident, awarded Dilley $863.90 from Ordener for truck repairs.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Amnesia | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

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