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At Mr. Baruch's succeeding appearances the committeemen greeted him with deferential smiles. What was more, Senator Byrnes of Mr. Baruch's own South Carolina appeared to tell the Committee two things that Mr. Baruch would not tell. The first: When the U. S. entered the War it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Peace & Personal Matters | 4/8/1935 | See Source »

For a Senator to appear before a committee to laud a tycoon-witness was sufficiently impressive. For a group of inquisitors virtually to apologize for ever having thought anything ill of a tycoon-witness was even rarer. When Senator Byrnes finished speaking, Senator Nye, who chairmans the Munitions Committee, hastily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Peace & Personal Matters | 4/8/1935 | See Source »

Fifty-eight years ago he was born in Brooklyn to desperately poor parents, a puny, sickly babe, given small chance to survive. When he was five his father died. Soon his mother took him to Charleston, S. C. to live with her sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Byrnes. There young Frank had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: Rich Men Scared | 3/11/1935 | See Source »

&182; One evening Franklin Roosevelt picked up his telephone and made one of the most significant telephone calls that he had made since taking office. He was calling to smooth the feathers of a very ruffled Democrat, asking the aid of Carter Glass to prevent the liberals of the Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Not Forgotten | 2/18/1935 | See Source »

For years the first name on the Senate's alphabetical roll-call, he always responds with vigor, starting off proceedings with a flourish. Aside from his career on the Judiciary Committee and in spite of his long service, he is neither a Grade A Senator like Borah or Wagner or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 16, 1934 | 7/16/1934 | See Source »

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