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...Anaconda was wrong. Though its records on the subject are vague, the Post Office Department did know that Anaconda's Anna was not the last of her species. During the War many a strong girl got a man's job toting letters from door to door. At least one who still functions is Katie E. Philpot, 44, of Williamston, N. C. Famed otherwise for fine tobacco, corn meal and wild turkeys, Williamston takes pride in the slim, resolute figure of Katie Philpot marching dutifully through the north end of town every morning and afternoon, her slim back bent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mail Ladies | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...Once again intolerance has raised its head in the midst of our political picture. ... If Mr. Winrod is nominated for the U. S. Senate, it will again be injected into the national campaign and our party in Kansas will be on the wrong side of a vital issue. . . . Disastrous effects!" Candidate Winrod, in his weekly radiorations over two Kansas stations and in his monthly magazine, The Defender, has made noises like a fascist : taken slaps at Jews and Catholics, gone hard after all Communists. Vowing that he is no fascist, he says: "Fascism is the illegitimate child of Communism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KANSAS: Wilderness Voice | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

...find out what had happened, the U. S. Ambassador and the U. S. S. R. Ambassador each called at the French Foreign Office. They were told nothing with great politeness. Correspondents were informed at the British Foreign Office: "Of all the rumors now being printed, about 99% are wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: One Staff! One Flag! | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

...Little Peter (Donnie Dunagan) prattles through an experiment in paperhanging with a three-year-old's matchless deviltry; adolescent Gilbert (Jackie Moranj finds his voice cracking just when he needs dignity most; Lally Joy (Virginia Weidler), thrifty Storekeeper Popham's girl, wears her button shoes on the wrong feet every other day to keep the heels from running over too much to the side; beau-aged Nancy and Kitty (Anne Shirley, Ruby Keeler) get in & out of sweetheart tangles without a scratch. Mothering this engaging brood is mature Actress Fay Bainter, probably the nearest cinema...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 1, 1938 | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

Incredible was the bare-faced yarn Corrigan told: "I left New York to return to Los Angeles, but by an unfortunate mistake I set my compass wrong, and when I got up above the clouds the visibility was very bad* When I had flown 25 hours I came down through the clouds and I was in Ireland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Stunt | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

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