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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Governor of the Federal Home Loan Bank System ($10,000) to be Comptroller of the Currency ($15,000) the President last week raised Preston Delano, 52. Mr. Delano and the President are cousins but "very distant"; Mr. Delano announced he had talked to the President only thrice in his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Reason v. Force | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

Latest noted U. S. journalist to report in detail on Palestine is exuberant, redhaired, I. N. S. Correspondent H. R. Knickerbocker. According to Mr. Knickerbocker, if Arabs run short of ammunition, they take it from the police. If they lack money, they rob a British bank. If annoyed at Jewish ownership of land, they destroy deed records in the Land Registry Office. Not one British policeman risks murder by patrolling Jerusalem streets after midnight. Knickerbocker conclusions: "Nowhere in the British Empire, save perhaps among the savage tribes of the Northwest Frontier [India], do such conditions of disorder and contempt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Peace Feast | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

...spend. In 1933. when the Chicago Century of Progress put on a national Softball tournament as part of its sport program, the game received its biggest boost. Today there are some 5,000,000 players (men and tomboys) and 200,000 teams (sponsored by churches, movie stars, saloons, banks) with names ranging from Slapsie Maxie's Curvacious Cuties to Bank of America Bankerettes. In Los Angeles there are 9,000 Softball clubs within a hundred miles of Wrigley Field (1,000 of them are women's teams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Softballers | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...Considered raising the limit on insured bank deposits. To the 13,719 U. S. banks now insured (up to $5,000 per account) by Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., Chairman Leo Crowley sent a letter asking for statistics on the number of their accounts over $5,000 in size. Recalling that Chairman Henry Steagall of the House Banking Committee had advocated increased coverage, Chairman Crowley said FDIC was willing to raise the ante if the additional risk were "very small." Previous estimates showed that about 95% of U. S. deposits were covered by the present limit. But a new estimate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Investor's Advocate | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

Solider-looking of the two was Old Haven, a 559-page novel laid in a small fishing village on the North Sea. Despite its wholly Dutch characters and background, it is only semi-Dutch. Author Dejong, a slight, redheaded, 33-year-old ex-bank clerk, soda-jerker, gravedigger and onetime student at five U. S. universities, left Holland when he was twelve, has spent most of his life in Grand Rapids, Mich. Old Haven tells the story of a picturesque Dutch clan of builders and landowners, headed by a hardheaded, wise old dame who defies strait-laced Calvinist townsfolk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Below Sea Level | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

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