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Dates: during 1930-1939
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As distributors of the most dominant and influential publication on the North American Continent, seldom, if ever, do you strike below the belt in your views and reviews of topics of interest, but if you say, as recorded in your Aug. 31 issue, as indicated by one Gerold C. Wichmann...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 14, 1936 | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

"Spending 'like this is not waste. It would spell future waste if we did not spend for such things now. . . . On my entire trip, though I asked the question dozens of times, I heard no complaint against the character of a single works relief project. . . .

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Journey of Husbandry | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

The Long Road (National Home Library, 25?) is written by Arthur E. Morgan rather as the onetime head of Antioch College than as the chairman of Tennessee Valley Authority. Believing that business has abused its powers, that the reliability of public ownership is unjustly disparaged, he does not damn big...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Battle of Booklets | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

His conclusion: "If personal character is on a low level, then there comes a time when no refinement of social planning and no expenditure of public wealth, however great, will create a good social order. . . . In my opinion life in America is approaching that point."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Battle of Booklets | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

Shortly it seemed the Vatican might be doubling Archbishop Cicognani's fist, raising it for a blow. From Director Giulio Castelli of Rome's La Corrispondenza news agency came still another explanation of the Coughlin conundrum in which everyone seemed to be contradicting everyone else as to just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Vatican Voices (Cont'd) | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

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