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High on the list of things the New Deal proposed to do soon after March 4, 1933 was a vigorous clean-up of the food and drug industry. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt became an ardent advocate for a sterner and stricter law than the relic of 1906. In the Department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Drug Bill Out | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

From the Quai d'Orsay to the Place des Invalides the street lamps were on, shining wanly through black shrouds of crepe. As if to make up for official negligence that may have cost the old gentleman his life, the entire distance was lined with steel-helmeted soldiers, elbow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Assassination's Aftermath | 10/22/1934 | See Source »

In the Protestant churches, warm weather brings conferences and assemblies. Ministers meet, talk, elect officers, pass resolutions, shake hands, go home with new pious zeal. Last week met the following church groups: Dunkers or Dunkards are so named because they dunk. Descended from German pietists of the 18th Century, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Meetings of Many | 6/4/1934 | See Source »

As usual, these charges stirred Georgia to resentment against outside criticism of its race relations rather than to clean-up action. Said the Atlanta Constitution: "There are no better people in Georgia or in any other state than those . . . in Jefferson County. . . . There should be some way to protect such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Terror? Tumble-Bug? | 2/12/1934 | See Source »

Commissioner MacCormick's clean-up was a windfall for Vanity Fair which got its February issue on the newsstands six days before Welfare Island made big black headlines. In that smartchart was an article about the prison which knowingly described most of the evil conditions uncovered by the raid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: World's Worst | 2/5/1934 | See Source »

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