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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Revolution, and in his own right a country squire and cattle breeder at home in Maysville, Ky. First called to Washington by President Hoover as counsel to the late Farm Board at $25.000 salary, he previously advanced under Democratic rule to the RFC at $12.500. Not so brilliant as some of the New Deal's younger legalites, his tall bulk appealed to tall, bulky Jesse Jones, and his hard work resulted in his being rated among the more competent of the Administration's legal servants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECOVERY: Strategic Retreat | 4/8/1935 | See Source »

...Never since the World War have there been such misgivings as now," declared "Maxie" at a brilliant Moscow ball for "Antony," then cleverly switched from alarmism to reassurance. "A consoling feature of the present situation ... is ... that it is impossible now to point to groups of powers awaiting a propitious moment to attack. . . . The danger spots are at least located and clearly defined. ... I raise my glass to the health of His Majesty the King of England, and to the prosperity and happiness of the British people, and to your very good health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bleeding Frontiers | 4/8/1935 | See Source »

Proudest, craftiest and most daring of Seminole leaders was a brilliant-eyed, strikingly handsome young buck named Osceola. In 1835 the Government Indian Agent. General Wiley Thompson, summoned Seminole chiefs to sign a treaty of immediate emigration. Osceola advanced to the table, contemptuously drove his sheath knife through the paper. General Thompson threw him in chains. Osceola was shortly set free, slew General Thompson. President Jackson promptly launched the Second Seminole War. Quartering the tribe's women and children back in the swamps, Osceola led 1,600 braves in a guerrilla warfare which completely baffled the far larger forces...

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

Every moment a stimulating personality, with a mind that continuously strikes sparks, a brilliant advocate, he is not "shy." I think, but merely modest, preferring recognition by reason of straightforwardness and sound accomplishments rather than stage effects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 25, 1935 | 3/25/1935 | See Source »

...military pyramid, Chief of Staff MacArthur has at his right hand a Deputy: Major General George S. Simonds, a brilliant onetime commandant of the War College and former armaments adviser to the Geneva Disarmament Conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: MacArthur's Turn | 3/25/1935 | See Source »

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