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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time until her exasperatingly benevolent father straightens things out; that Andy and Becky will quarrel and then make up with one of those wonderful cave-man kisses. Realizing that the audience is familiar with the formula they are using, MGM should have introduced some new ideas, if such phenomena exist in California. Instead, the hackneyed plot has been made even more important--and even more unconvincing; the slushy sentimentality is slopped on in gobs; and there is an undercurrent of heavy seriousness that weighs the picture down. Only Mickey Rooney of the principal players retains his original spontaneity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/23/1939 | See Source »

Dorgan attacked, among other things, the Student Union, which he said, was an example of the seditious elements permitted to exist unless checked by strict application of the oath...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Refuses to Fight on Issue of Teachers' Oath Repeal | 2/15/1939 | See Source »

...keep hands off the evidence he had collected (including a sucker list of Kansas City's amateur gamblers complete with their credit connections). As Prosecutors Graves and McKittrick sat by, jaws hanging, Judge Southern snapped to the jury: "Gentlemen, the prosecuting attorney denies ... a general state of lawlessness exists.. .. It is certain that the prosecuting attorney has not prepared and will not be able to prepare evidence of a thing which he says does not exist. . . . The Attorney General tells me ... he has obtained no evidence . . . and that he is dependent upon the Police Department. . . . Gambling has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSOURI: Zealous Judges | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...deported as an alien and a Communist, wired President Roosevelt: "Nazi agents and sympathizers working on planes of the North American Aviation Company ... at Los Angeles, and on planes of the Consolidated Aircraft Company at San Diego, are engaged in wholesale sabotage. . . . Abundant evidence and official records now exist to prove these drastic charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Chemidlin's Ride | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...magazine, a corner of newspaper, a wrought-iron figure, a brunette en chemise. Another thing he likes is playing with webby threads of paint as a pastry cook plays with icing, to catch the light and give his canvases lustre. His great-eyed, meanderingly drawn figures often seem to exist in a mussy halo of phosphorescence, with vast spaces of mere paint around them. This highly mannered style does not satisfy Kuniyoshi, but it is the first one he has made fully and expressively his own in about 20 years of unhurried painting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Party | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

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