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...outdone, the Cannonites got out an edition too, retitled the magazine Fourth International. The Cannonites managed to retain the Socialist Workers Party name. At a rousing rally last week the schismatics christened themselves the Workers Party. Both sects, though by this time as far apart as Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists and hardshells, declared their undying faith in god (dialectical materialism) and the Fourth International...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Anti-Religion | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

Stealing the bell clapper from the tower of old Nassau Hall is so persistent a custom at Princeton that the university does a profitable business: keeps a barrel of spare clappers in reserve and fines students $30 a steal. One dark night two months ago Freshman John C. Seed, 19, of Oak Park, Ill., eluded the bored watchman, shinnied up a drain pipe. Part way up, he lost his hold, fell 35 feet to the ground. Freshman Seed went to a Chicago hospital, where his father is a physician, with two broken vertebrae...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Boys Will Be Boys | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...Barn Dance goes on the air at 7 p.m. (C.S.T.), is sponsored in pieces of 15 minutes and more by Alka-Seltzer, Keystone Steel & Wire Co. (fences), Murphy Products Co. (poultry and livestock feeds), Woodmen Accident Co. (insurance), Edward Funk & Sons (hybrid seed corn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Howdy, Evvabuddy | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...letter came, thought at first the check was an advertising coupon and started to throw it away. In the same strange manner, a $100 check came for Mrs. Grace Singleton, whose husband died last June. Widow Singleton used the money to pay off a note at the bank, buy seed oats for her farm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSOURI: Angel of Ava | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

...buying power in 1939 rose 5% to $8,518,000,000, the industry cocks a hopeful eye at the 1,183,687 small farms in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin (not counting other hundreds of thousands in other States), growers of wheat, oats, barley, rye, buckwheat, red clover seed, alfalfa, timothy, sweet clover, beans, cowpeas-as potential market for small combines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Flivver Farm Machinery | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

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