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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like to see a situation where we'd never sell another gun, another battleship or another projectile. I'd like to see the world stop destroying values and start creating values, and that would spell better business profits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Steelmaster's Opinion | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...went to one of our war cemeteries, and when I stood there I felt a kind of rage and a kind of anguish. The damned folly of life has caught us again and the sons of those who died are going to be the victims of another evil spell. Can it be possible or isn't it just a nightmare from which we shall all wake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Winkles on Pins | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

When the picture was over, the audience applauded loudly. But coming out from under its spell, some of them must have wondered if Director Frank Caprahad been reading late great Secretary of State John Hay's outburst to Henry Adams: "You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mr. Smith Riles Washington | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...countless in number and picayune in detail, nevertheless set up precedents by which great decisions are made. It is essential that they be backed by a strong and consistent general policy. Likewise, the handling of our war trade with the belligerents is a herculcan job that may spell victory or defeat for our neutrality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHEN THE HURLY-BURLY'S DONE | 10/28/1939 | See Source »

...beckoned crowds turn out in droves, Buzz wears a slick cowboy outfit and so do Claude and Esther. His roustabouts wear natty, filling-station-style uniforms with cowboy hats, clown around on bucking steers between sales. Buzz himself is no mail-order Westerner. Colorado-born, he worked for a spell as a brakeman on Spencer Penrose's Pike's Peak cog road. As a prelude to his success story, he tells the curious: "I'm no relation to the ex-President, the G-Man or the vacuum cleaner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Prairie Showman | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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