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...stating his views on the Neutrality Law Hull bore out previous reports that the present act is, on the whole, not unsatisfactory to the administration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...Manhattan millinery trade have known Louis Greenfield, a Hungarian Jew who fought for the U. S. in the War and has a little business in West 38th Street, as an honest, hard-working chap almost too devoted to his wife, Anna, and the son she bore him in 1922. They knew he borrowed money right & left to get nurses, doctors, treatments for the son, Jerry, who was forever ailing. They knew that worry aged Louis Greenfield prematurely. But only his intimates knew that the child, who would have been 17 last March, was a quivering, overgrown, cross-eyed imbecile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Horror Story | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Mississippi's Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo arosein the Senate one day last week to display a bulky petition. It bore,said he, the names of 2,500,000 U. S. Negroes who would prefer to live in Africa. For three-and-a-half hours and 26 pages in the Congressional Record, he expanded on a way to make this possible: let the Government establish a Greater Liberia for "repatriated" blacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Mr. Bilbo's Afflatus | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...Publisher Wilfred John Funk of the deFunked Literary Digest started a new publishing venture, a 128-page, digest-size, 25? "Popular Guide to Desirable Living," Your Life. Publisher Funk's formula was as simple as it was shrewd: "If I talk about myself I'm a bore. If I talk about other people I'm a gossip. But if I talk about you I'm a damned interesting fellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Funk's Amoeba | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

While her papa, Egypt's King Farouk, attended the exhumation of one of his royal predecessors, Princess Ferial (age four months) faced the world in her first picture. Egypt's adoring fellaheen fondly assured one another that the picture bore a strong resemblance to their late princess, Cleopatra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 3, 1939 | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

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