1938/07/18 — Cover featuring “Camisoles Are Back” is credited to Dmitri Kessel Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Fascism Holds Its First Open meeting in Canada LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World The Vice President Fishes for Fish Berlin Jaywalkers, Eire’s President, U.S. Cavemen President Roosevelt Boosts His Senate Leader [...]
1938/07/04 — Cover featuring West Point Wedding is credited to Frank Scherschel Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Survivor Photographs the Worst U.S. Train Wreck in 50 Years LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World Max Schmelling Out on the Ropes – 1 page, full-page photo …and How Joe Louis [...]
1938/06/20 — Cover featuring Rudolph Valentino is credited to Culver Service Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Death from the Air: The Bombing of Canton LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World Newark Eggs Socialist Norman Thomas A President’s Son Poses with His Fiancee The U.S. Senate: First Pictures Ever Taken [...]
1938/06/13 — Cover featuring Gertrude Lawrence is credited to Peter Stackpole Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: America’s National Crime – The Cash and Levine Kidnappings LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World PEP – A Texas Graduation Mexican Rebels Wreck Trains and Make Trouble The “Acadia’ Sinks the “Mandalay” A [...]
1938/06/06 — Cover featuring “Youth Problem: 1938″ is credited to Alfred Eisenstaedt Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: “Youth Tell Their Story” : Case Histories from Maryland Report LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World The Bernstein-Bourdet Duel Mrs. Roosevelt Dances: Henlein Talks; Akron Riots Ten Die in Ohio Air Crash [...]
1938/05/30 — Cover photograph featuring Czech General Jan Sirovy is credited to John Phillips Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Henry Ford Takes a $35,000,000 Crack at the Depression LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World America’s First Black Out / Bombs Bursting Over Farmingdale The Chinese Watch an Air Battle [...]
1939/05/29 — Cover featuring Eleanor Roosevelt is credited to Mark Kauffman Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: The King and Queen Sit on an American Throne The British Ambassador Holds His First Press Conference LIFE on the Newsfronts of the Wolrd Peru’s Unbelievable Mother and Baby Bayonets Gleam in Bloody Harlan [...]
1938/05/23 — Cover featuring Errol Flynn is credited to Scotty Wilbourne Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Two Little Men in Rome – Mussolini Shows Off for Hitler – 3 pages of pictures LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Man France’s “Lafayette” Burns at Her Dock [...]
1938/05/09 — Cover featuring Summer Fashions is credited to Alfred Eisenstaedt. Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: La Follettes’ Bid for 1944 Newark Gets an Archbishop Cardinal Against Modern Fashions Pope Canonizes Three Avalanche Caught Switzerland Keeps Freedom Picture-of-the-Week Rome Builds Hitler Street New Play at China’s Front A Chrysler Weds [...]
1938/05/02 — Cover photograph featuring Vice-President John Nance Garner is by Margaret Bourke-White Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: The General of the Armies Goes to His Son’s Wedding Labor Spills Its Quota of Blood The Country’s Cartoonists Have Fun with Pump-priming Newspictures of the Week The War Goes On: U.S. [...]
1938/04/18 — Cover photograph featuring Paulette Goddard is by Martin Munkacsi Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: The Congress of the U.S. to the President of the U.S.: “No!” Speaking of Dictators – 2 pages of photos featuring Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin in poses that are similar to poses Roosevelt was photographed [...]
1938/04/11 — Cover photograph featuring “Fashion Note” is by Alfred Eisenstaedt Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Herbert Hoover Looks at Europe Czechoslovakia Has Map Trouble Death Takes So-Lin, America’s First Panda A Cyclone Circles Through a Kansas City The Kennedy Kids – America’s Gift to Dimplomacy – Two full pages, [...]
1938/04/04 — Cover featuring Anthony Eden is credited to Time Inc. Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: The Simpson Family Goes on Relief Americans Get Rich The President’s Album The Secretary of State The Postmaster General The Assistant President & Wife Tornado Hits Mississippi Valley Automobile Replacement “Please bury us together” [...]
1938/03/28 — Cover featuring “German Bugler” is credited to Wolfgang Weber Contents of this issue are as follows: HITLER TAKES AUSTRIA: The Little Corporal Bloody Europe, 1870-1938 Hitler, Ally & Map The Ride to Vienna Goebbels & Reichsautobahn Broken Lives “One Folk, One Reich, One Fuhrer Berliners Make Whoopee THE NEW WAR IN SPAIN: The [...]
1938/03/21 — Cover photograph featuring “Should They Marry?” is by William Vandivert Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Richard Whitney Rides to a Great Fall LIFE on the American Newsfront Swinging Folk Songs Raises Storm Stanford Star Sets Basketball Scoring Record featuring Hank Luisetti “It’s Wheeling Steel” – A Capital & [...]
1938/03/07 — Cover photograph featuring “Texas High School Girls” is by Fritz Henle Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: The British Cabinet Tries to Make Friends with the Dictators LIFE on the American Newsfront – Includes odd full-page photo of American Nazis hailing George Washington as the first Fascist — Nazis [...]
1938/02/21 — Cover featuring poet Carl Sandburg is credited to Bernard Hoffman Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: The Dutch Go Wild Over Their New Princess Beatrix LIFE on the American Newsfront Braintruster Berle Gets Washington Job Historian Beard Enters War Debate Glenn Cunningham Wins the Wanamaker Mile Picture Map of [...]
1938/02/14 — Cover featuring “The Queen of Egypt” is credited to Alban Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: The Small Businessman Goes to Washington LIFE on the American Newsfront Trial by Jury: The Wright Murder Case New Priest for Detroit: New Locomotives for China “World’s Biggest Bulb” Honors Edison Lord Tweedsmuir [...]
1938/02/07 — Cover featuring Gary Cooper is credited to Bob Coburn Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Europe’s Little Nations Flirt With Germany and Italy LIFE on the American Newsfront Roosevelt’s New Navy and the Navy’s New CINCUS Joe Louis Makes His Movie Debut January Weather The Shoes of a Nation: [...]
1937/11/08 — Cover photograph featuring “Greta Garbo” is by Clarence Bull Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: The Windsors Turn from Germany to America LIFE on the American Newsfront U.S. Steel Gets New Blood, New Faces Mr. Hoover Calls for New Blood, New Faces New York Cleans Its Sewage at Hell [...]
1937/08/30 — Cover photograph featuring “LIFE Goes On a Frog Hunt” is by Horace Bristol Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: The U.S. Dedicates Its Battle Monuments Mrs. Bishop Strikes Radium Tennessee Lynching Mr. Justice Black: Cabin to Court The South Sings Hymns “MIss Dixie” the Lady Senator Alf Landon Builds [...]
1937/08/23 — Cover photograph featuring “Transoceanic Transport” is by Clyde H. Sunderland Contents of this issue are as follows: AT HOME: Summer Theatres Huge Cotton Crop New Justice – Hugo Black appointed to Supreme Court Bickering Democrats Slum Disaster Amorous Mountie Girl Scouts Jubile Little Donald Horst Wreck in Missouri Abroad: Egypt Gets a King [...]
1937/08/16 — Cover photograph featuring Young Camper is credited to George Karger Contents of this issue are as follows: Speaking of Pictures Letters to the Editors Madam Chiang Kai-shek LIFE on the American Newsfront The Presidents’ Album Model Bride Movie of the Week: Souls at Sea with Gary Cooper and Frances Dee Private Flying – [...]
1937/08/09 — Cover photograph featuring “Watermelons to Market” is credited to Al Burgert Contents of this issue are as follows: Letters to the Editors Speaking of Pictures Democratic Split LIFE on the American Newsfront Motorized Maneuvers Movie of the Week: The Life of Emile Zola with Paul Muni Martha’s Vineyard with two pages of color [...]
1937/05/31 — Cover photograph featuring “Golden Gate Bridge” is credited to Standard Oil of California Contents of this issue are as follows: Letters to the Editors Speaking of Pictures The Theatre Escapes Censorship LIFE on the American Newsfront Henry Ford …And Henry Ford’s Warren Grim Memphis Cotton Carnival Golden Gate Bridge Movie of the Week: [...]
