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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Morro Castle, having finally been dragged off the New Jersey beach where she grounded in flames seven months ago, was sold for scrap to Union Shipbuilding Co. of Baltimore. Price: $33,605. Abandoned by her owners and underwriters, condemned by the Navy as unfit for further use, the $5,000,000 Ward liner had been taken over by the Army as a menace to navigation, sold to the highest bidder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Scrap | 4/8/1935 | See Source »

...past four years Crane's head has been John B. Berryman, an oldtime vice president. Last week Mr. Berryman moved up to board chairman, making way for what he called "an extremely young man"-Charles Beach Nolte, 49. "I've reached a very old age." explained the ruddy, strapping master plumber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Valve Man | 4/8/1935 | See Source »

...last week several thousand Floridians and visitors from the North repaired to a park on the shores of Lake Worth, between Palm Beach and West Palm Beach. There they ranged themselves in specially-built boxes and bleachers around a huge central platform. On the platform bespectacled Secretary of the Interior Harold Le Clair Ickes squatted on his haunches in a circle of squatting Seminole Indians. Seminole squaws and papooses in bright beads and dresses were bunched around the platform. Loudspeakers allowed the spectators to overhear the powwow by which Secretary Ickes proposed to advance the Administration's policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Peace Powwow | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

Economic theories for the immediate salvation of the U. S. come & go like the waves of the sea, pounding loudly for a little while on the beach of public attention and then receding to the silent depths of history. The Utopian movement, whipped up into big breakers by the 1934 campaign, spent itself in the defeat of California's Upton Sinclair and his EPIC. Its successor, the Townsend Plan, touched its high watermark just before Chairman Doughton of the House Ways & Means Committee put the old country doctor on the witness stand and made a monkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Share-the-Wealth Wave | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

...rustic outskirts of Eastbourne in preparation for the Jubilee, the Empire heard of them last week only that George V had allowed his hand to be seized and vigorously pumped by "Dusty" Matthews, 86, a village character who approached the King-Emperor as he was strolling on the beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Tussand's and the Captain | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

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