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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This information was the more interesting because last week Foreign Relations Chairman Key Pittman-after weeks of outcry by friends of peace and of China, ranging from Elder Statesman Henry Stimson to Author Pearl (The Good Earth) Buck-laid before the Senate a joint resolution authorizing President Roosevelt to embargo all exports (except agricultural products) to Japan, and all imports from her. Reason: the Japanese Government flagrantly violated the Nine Power Treaty, the most solemn treaty ever entered into by the U. S. and Japan. To be sure, this has been true for several years. Senator Pittman thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Few Reasons | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Thus reasoned a lanky, hardheaded Californian whose Irish blood fears no fight but whose humanist mind hates folly. Lawyer John Francis ("Jack") Neylan, onetime political and financial reporter, was until 1937 lord high chancellor of the Hearst empire. Before that (1911-17) he was chairman of the State finance body which put California on a budget. For eleven years he has been a regent of the University of California. He is a director of great National City Bank (Manhattan). Nowadays he commutes to San Francisco from his ranch in the mountains to the south. Last fortnight Jack Neylan appeared before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Neylam Plan | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...economics and labor from Wisconsin's famed Professor John R. Commons. Later he taught economics at Antioch College, where his students called him "Uncle Billy." He has been a careerist in mediation and arbitration-for NRA, for the petroleum industry, finally (in 1934) for the railroads as chairman of the National Mediation Board. So good & fair at his calling is William Leiserson that he is often asked to mediate outside the railway field. In his last such important chore, ruling that messenger boys come under the Wage & Hour Law, he did not forget to butter up big Western Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Two Nice Men | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...With more general stories, more action shots than ever before, and we hope with a completely different cover. The Album will withal maintain its essential dignity," stated Robert M. Banker, Album Committee Chairman. According to Bunker, a new feature of the Album, will be the institution of more general articles, one on the history of the class by Frank P. Davidson and William N. Chambers, one on the progress which education has made at Harvard in the last four years, one by Cleveland Amory on the four years athletic record of the Class of '39, and one on the House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANNUAL JUNIOR ALBUM WILL APPEAR ON MAY 27 | 5/5/1939 | See Source »

Rowe is a member of the Freshman swimming team, while Stern manages the Varsity tennis squad and is Chairman of the PBH Speakers' Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brooks House Grenfell Mission Group Selects Two for Labrador Trip | 5/5/1939 | See Source »

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