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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Young & old, baggy & neat, bright & dull, the men and women of Session III of the 76th Congress came together last week faced with election year and these issues: 1) renewal of the reciprocal trade agreements (see above); 2) the Budget and taxes; 3) National Defense; 4) proposals to curb NLRB; 5) relief appropriations; 6) amendments to the Wage-Hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Session III | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

...slightest sign of bullet marks on or in Unity's head. "The only thing wrong with her head is that it is turned!" shrugged M. Micouleau after kindly British tars had carried Unity safely aboard a Channel packet while her mother held her hand. She looked pale, dull-eyed and tottery but presently sat up, laughed and chattered with her mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Tycoon's Daughters | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

...Museum School of Art, who died recently in Paris. The pieces, unfortunately, are neither titled nor numbered so that it is difficult to refer to specific paintings which exemplify certain aspects of the artist's style, Iacovleff is an interesting painter; his color is dirty, his subject matter is dull, and his rendition is poor. Nevertheless, he is interesting. For he is an outstanding example of an artist who didn't know where he was. His style seems to be an odd mixture of the worst elements of Romanticism that can be found in both Delacroix and Gericault, together with...

Author: By Jack Wilner, | Title: Collections & Critiques | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

...essay on the people versus the crooked nobles than it is a horror story. But the Daily Worker would then be as aesthetically wrong as it was in firing "the renegade Rushmore" for liking that "fascist-slanted, anti-negro" epic "Gone With The Wind," for "The Hunchback" is a dull film...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/5/1940 | See Source »

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