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...Dismal as was the failure of the League of Nations, democratic thinkers answered these questions by proposing a new concert of nations, stronger than the League, not quite so tight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: No Paper Plan | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...Crimson Freshmen finished up a dismal day by losing to Worecester Academy, 2 to 1. Horkey Herskovits, leading scorer for the Yardlings, made their lone score on a difficult shot in the third period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: D' Autremont, Penson Star as Crimson Booters Lose to Undefeated Princeton | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Prize pupil of Denyn is Manhattan's Kamiel Lefevere. Daily he climbs the 335 feet to his crow's-nest in the Riverside Tower, dons his gloves and thumps his way through a bingety-bonging symphony. In winter the freezing wind howls a dismal obbligato through the Gothic masonry around his booth. In summer

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bellwhangers | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

When U. S. auto production started down hill last spring there was a steep and slippery grade ahead. With all four wheels locked, the industry slithered down from a top weekly production of 90,280 (at the end of March) and skidded to a dismal pace of 32,445 (during the first week in May). Instead of crashing at the bottom, the motor industry stepped on the throttle, succeeded in topping an unexpected rise to 81,070 a week by the end of June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: 1940 Models | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

Laborites Lewis and Bittner moved slowly and thoroughly. They did not risk the splits and premature rough stuff that C. I. O. permitted to occur elsewhere. Chicago packinghouse labor lives "back of the yards" in a wide, dismal area of ramshackle homes and crumby tenements. Nearly all now belong to the C. I. O. Nearly all are devout Roman Catholics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Meat, and a Bishop | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

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