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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin D. Roosevelt can point with pride to the fact that, in the two years and four months since he took office, the breath of scandal has blown but two piddling puffs on his Administration. First puff was the flatulent product of that impressionable Gary, Ind. school superintendent, Dr. William Wirt. whose charges that the Brain Trust was all but in the pay of Moscow made a farcical Congressional investigation last year (TIME, April 23, 1934). Second puff flurried up portentously fortnight ago when Ewing Young Mitchell, whom the President had to oust as Assistant Secretary of Commerce because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Fadeout | 7/1/1935 | See Source »

...Navy for his health, wanted to look for treasure and see whether the women of the Babuyan Islands really outnumbered the men 20 to 1. With a German named Wrede and a Russian named Roubin, he was arrested at Taito, Formosa, because their ketch The Flying Dutchman was blown ashore suspiciously near two Japanese war boats in the Taito harbor. This looked to the Japanese like a real threat but it soon fell apart and the three were fined and released...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Spy Nonsense | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

Rained or blown out since the disputed Princeton game on Saturday, April 27, the Varsity baseball team resumes its regular schedule in an encounter with Providence College on Soldiers Field this afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STIFF OPPOSITION IS EXPECTED FROM PROVIDENCE TEAM | 5/8/1935 | See Source »

...organ of a young girl murdered by their assistant, and another in which they impregnate her with crackling life from a lightning bolt brought down on gigantic kite-cables. The synthetic woman (Elsa Lanchester) lives to demonstrate complete distaste for the monster intended as her mate before she is blown jnto eternity with Dr. Pretorius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 29, 1935 | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

...prefabricated house builders hope to meet this competition by making their product twice as good as the cheapest house. They offer at least three things which Hodgson and Sears, Roebuck do not: termite-proof steel frames, airconditioning, fireproof materials. The prefabricated house is also earthquake-proof, can be blown over only by a 135-mi. gale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Home in Cellophane | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

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