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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When all this is done, the Indian Bureau will proceed to explain to the Navajos that they must reduce their stock. But the explanation, and the subsequent reduction, was inaugurated in 1934 and 1935. By the time the bilingual teachers get around to it, the Navajo stock will be reduced to the vanishing point. They think it's far too near that point already. Doesn't your article put the cart before the horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 8, 1940 | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

When Scripps died, Hearst's International News Service hired Jimmy Young, sent him to Japan at 23 to run the Tokyo bureau. Curly-haired, stocky Newsman Young had a healthy zest for his job, a healthy sense of humor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Japanese Justice | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

...Senate torn by an effort to make politics pure continued last week to ignore a resolution by New Hampshire's stubborn Charles W. Tobey. Mr. Tobey wanted the Senate to deplore the Census Bureau's income and personal questions. Flying in Mr. Tobey's direction came a brickbat from Franklin Roosevelt, a concession from Commerce Secretary Harry Hopkins. Snapped Mr. Roosevelt, touchy last week with a cold: "For the first time . . . a U. S. Senator has openly advised the American people to violate the law." Mr. Hopkins, still ill and away from his desk for the eighth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Revolt | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

Admiral Pratt was assistant Chief of the Bureau, and for a period occupied the position of "Cincus," or Commander in Chief of the United States Fleet. He will speak here next month on the naval aspect of the war at a meeting of Faculty members...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blockade Weaker In '14, Says Pratt | 3/16/1940 | See Source »

WASHINGTON -- The Weather Bureau tonight ordered storm warnings posted from the Delaware Breakwater to Boston, saying a disturbance of increasing intensity centered over eastern Virginia will move rapidly northeastward and cause strong southeast winds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 3/15/1940 | See Source »

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