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Dates: during 1930-1939
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If the transfer of the control of these stations should be approved by the Federal Communications Commission, they will represent purely an investment upon Mrs. Roosevelt's and my part.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 18, 1937 | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

Presiding Bishop. A commission appointed by the last convention recommends that the Church's presiding bishop be elected permanently (to retire at 70) instead of every six years, be relieved of any diocesan jurisdiction and be made president of the Church's National Council, its business and missionary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Episcopalians in Cincinnati | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

Marriage & Divorce. A commission headed by Bishop Herman Page of Michigan voted last month, 10-to-1, to recommend that the convention liberalize the Church's canon on marriage and divorce, which at present provides that only the innocent party in a divorce for adultery may be remarried in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Episcopalians in Cincinnati | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

Underwriters now are strictly regulated by the Securities & Exchange Commission. To the public this may have meant, as recently claimed by onetime SEChairman James M. Landis, a $1,000,000,000 saving from stock swindles. But last week underwriters found themselves in a genuine jam as the result of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Backwater | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

Six Harvard faculty men are among the sixty persons who have signed a petition addressed to the Special Legislative Commission investigating "subversive elements" in Massachusetts. The petition, which will be received by Commission chairman Sybil Holmes today, states that "undue time and attention is being allotted to the Communists, with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Six faculty Men Sign Petition Hitting Nazi, Fascist Elements | 10/13/1937 | See Source »

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