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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Radio Comic Fred Allen, having hugely annoyed Philadelphia's Chamber of Commerce by wisecracking about the smallness of a Philadelphia hotel room he once put up in (TIME, Dec. 18), tried to make amends by explaining that times had changed; but that old room, said he, "was so small...

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

No Life with Father was life at the White House for the children of Theodore Roosevelt. They crawled through the space between ceiling and floors, dragged their spotted pony into the elevator, whooped on roller skates down the historic hallways, walked on stilts up the circling stairways, with Father egging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Father's Son | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Miss Campbell thinks that she has been in this school too long, would like to go on to a bigger one. Next year she plans to take Saturday courses at the University of Iowa. Her teaching salary now is $72.50 a month (she began at $40). Her restaurant job helps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Schoolmarm | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Someone had apparently planted a high explosive bomb within, or in the attic above, the hall's central pillar. The explosion toppled the pillar, brought the ceiling down on the assembled Nazis' heads. Seven (including Maria Henle) were killed, 63 injured. Had the Führer stayed even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Eleven Minutes | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Last week when Marcel Tabuteau sat out in front of the orchestra at a Manhattan concert and soloed in Mozart's Quartet in F Major for Oboe and Strings, hard-boiled critics threw kisses at the ceiling, and at the end of the first movement the audience cheered. Marcel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Little Garlic | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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