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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...foes hoped to nail his political hide to that barn door, they reckoned without the old Tennessean. To Chicago he went last week with figures in his fist and proceeded to belabor the short-winded old Smoot-Hawley protective tariff scheme, which since 1930 (when it threw up the highest international trade barriers in U. S. history) has lost some of its fighting trim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Barn Door | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...press. Some 125,000 of the 32,000,000 who live on U. S. farms had themselves a time at the 40th International Live Stock Exposition, the 18th National 4-H-Club Congress, the 21st American Farm Bureau Federation Convention, many a simultaneous farmfest in Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Crops and Prospects | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...most arbitrary and unsavory unions. Its leaders are a colorful crew, to say the least. Take Uncle Willie Bioff, for example, whose name has been connected with three labor murders, who has been charged with accepting a one hundred thousand dollar bribe, and convicted of pandering in Chicago. But the union is not only shady--it is dictatorial. Controlling all the Boston theatres except the Repertory, which now shows only movies, it forces producers to accept its inordinate demands, or get out. As an instance, sets being shifted from the Colonial to the Plymouth, separated by a fifteen foot alley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LABOR PAINS | 12/16/1939 | See Source »

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