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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surest way for wheat farmers to get their fair share of the national income," said he, is for the Government to give the farmer the difference between his market price and what his crop would have brought in some Golden Age like that of 1909-13. Such payments are authorized in principle by AAA II whenever appropriations are made for them. Mr. Wallace boldly suggested that the best way to finance the payments would be to revive processing taxes, which the Supreme Court found illegal. "Why not use this kind of a tax once more?" he demanded. "We know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Ache, Agony, Anguish | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

Generals and lieutenants alike now get a medical going-over once a year. However much he has done to raise the pep quotient, Malin Craig has not been able to do a great deal about age in the upper ranks. He ran into the facts that: 1) it takes a long while to make a colonel; 2) only colonels may be made generals. By last June 30. after two and one-half years of Malin Craig's regime, the average age of 46 brigadiers was down one year (to 59 years, two months): of 21 major generals, down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Craig's Accent | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

Last week, Malin Craig, who reaches the mandatory retirement age of 64 next year, took his biggest swipe yet at general age levels. Upon his recommendation, the President promoted Brigadier General Henry H. Arnold.* 52, to be major general and chief of air corps; Brigadier General William H. Wilson, 60. Coast Artillery, to succeed retiring Major General Fox Conner as commander of the First Army; Brigadier General Robert McCandlass Beck Jr., 59, an assistant chief of staff, to succeed retiring Major General Frank McCoy. Also upped were seven colonels to brigadiers. Average age...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Craig's Accent | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

...age of 44, Mr. Mister Pegler's place as the great dissenter for the common man is unchallenged. Six days a week, for an estimated $65,000 a year, in 116 papers reaching nearly 6,000,000 readers, Mister Pegler is invariably irritated, inexhaustibly scornful. Unhampered by coordinated convictions of his own, Pegler applies himself to presidents and peanut vendors with equal zeal and skill. Dissension is his philosophy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mister Pegler | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

...pathological sexual aberrations." Nazi children are taught that motherhood is a duty, even of unmarried women, and "the number of illegitimate pregnancies and births among the members of the State Youth is tremendous." There is even a standard form for applications by youthful fathers to be declared of age so they can marry their mistresses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Germany's Children | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

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