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Dates: during 1930-1939
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For a Washington widow, for the wife of a New York surgeon and for the Dean of Bryn Mawr College, the Washington society news was nostalgic last week. Alice Roosevelt (Longworth) in 1902, Ethel Roosevelt (Derby) in 1908 and Helen Taft (Manning) in 1910 were the last three girls to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: At the White House | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

Hard at work ever since October, cudgeling their brains four days a week with the aid of a battery of experts, have been the six railroaders-Presidents Martin Withington Clement of Pennsylvania and Ernest Eden Norris of Southern, Vice Chairman Carl Raymond Gray of Union Pacific, Chairman George McGregor Harrison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Carrier Cudgeling | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

Two topics were notable by omission- labor and funded debt. The latter is significant since Senator Burton K. Wheeler, chairman of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee which will chaperon the report in the Senate, firmly believes that top-heavy funded debt is the roads' chief ailment. Knowing this and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Carrier Cudgeling | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

At Barbacena it began the laborious ascent of the single-track over the Manti-queiras. Near the town of Stio came catastrophe. Again, someone had blundered, for thundering down the mountain through signals came a heavily laden freight. Headlight to headlight the roaring freight and the snorting passenger train met...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Disaster on Wheels | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

Greville had several love affairs and one illegitimate child, but compared with Pepys, Bachelor Greville was a veritable monk. It is easy to see why his love affairs were few and brief. After keeping a beautiful, well-mannered mistress at Lord Wharncliffe's villa for seven weeks ("Henry de...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unexpurgated | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

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