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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Duke University owes its existence to over $40,000,000 bestowed by the late great head of the 80% U. S. tobacco monopoly. James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 22, 1932 | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

...buck to a dime, you're wrong, says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 22, 1932 | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

...collecting right now, your buck to my dime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 22, 1932 | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

...haunted the White House. Year after year has seen new bureaus formed and inserted with little deliberate consideration in to handy departments. The result is chaotic irresponsibility reduplication, useless expense and inefficiency. Reformers and students have long demanded changes, but courageous in deed would be the president first to buck the ire and political weight of the government bureaucracy. Opponents of Mr. Hoover will search with considerable success for points of attack in this message. They will delight in its incompleteness and lack of forcefulness. But nothing will suit their purpose better than his final proposal, which is almost sure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOOVER VACUUM CLEANER | 2/18/1932 | See Source »

Married. Francis V. du Pont, 37. of Wilmington, Del., son of the late Senator Thomas Coleman du Pont; and Janet M. Gram, 24, of Buffalo, N. Y.; in Baltimore. Present was the bridegroom's brother-in-law. Delaware's Governor C. Douglass Buck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 15, 1932 | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

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