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...Works Finance Corp. to finance self-liquidating Federal, State, municipal public works "at any rate of interest . . . necessary to get the business done." 2) To insure loans to small business, FHA style, "to put the small man who cannot finance internally on a par with large corporations." 3) To appoint a special subcommittee, reporting to Congress, on the feasibility of organizing capital credit banks to make capital available alike to government (Federal & local) and to private enterprise. "No panacea," Berle pontificated, "with these three bills we should have the elements for a modern financial toolkit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Last Word | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Last week the Commission began to look less sour. Having collected many facts, it was ready to start doing something about them. First step was to appoint a new director† who has his own youth story. Floyd Wesley Reeves, born on a South Dakota ranch staked out by his father not far from Custer's last stand, spent his boyhood tending cattle instead of going to school. He went through Robinson's Complete Arithmetic by himself, read Tennyson. Wordsworth, Shakespeare and Horatio Alger, began to teach in a country school at 17. Three years later he went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Votes for 18? | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

Schemer von Papen was more success ful in putting the skids under the German Republic. One of the last of the Republic's Chancellors, he wanted to get back into the driver's seat. With Junker sup port, he helped persuade President Paul von Hindenburg to appoint Adolf Hitler Chancellor, believing naively that the Fiihrer would become a figurehead and that he, von Papen, as Vice Chancellor would be the real power in a "Barons' Cabinet." Only hitch came when the Nazis, once in power, took the bit in their teeth and ignored Driver von Papen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Iscariot to Ankara | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

John J. Rowe '06, newly elected head of the Associated Harvard Clubs, told the committee that he would appoint the Alumni sponsors as soon as possible and that he was confident the campaign would be a success...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALUMNI ENDORSE LATIN-AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...undergraduate group which aims to establish a Rhodes system of national scholarships here for students from American Republics said that the Associated Harvard Clubs will appoint a committee to raise funds for the proposal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALUMNI ENDORSE LATIN-AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

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