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Dates: during 1930-1939
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> Missouri's Democrat Cochran presented the House with a Reorganization bill of which not even thunder-gusty Columnist-General Hugh Johnson could complain. Eschewing aspects which aroused cries of "Dictator!" last session, the new measure simply invited the President to submit before Jan. 21, 1941 a plan to alter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Grab Bag | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

After losing to Lehman in the 1984 gubernatorial contest, Moses was appointed to his present task of coordinating the city park and parkway systems by Mayor La Guardia. He is also head of the Triborough Bridge and Henry Hudson Parkway Authorities, and a member of the New York World's...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROBERT MOSES IS CHOSEN AS 1939 GODKIN LECTURER | 3/3/1939 | See Source »

It is so alarming that Harvard's President James Bryant Conant last month devoted much of his annual report to it, the Rockefeller General Education Board gave $520,000 to a commission* to study it and throughout the land teacher training is undergoing an overhauling. Last week Cornell University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: No. 1 Problem | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

*American Council on Education's Commission on Teacher Education. With another G. E. B. grant, Progressive Education Association next summer will start ten summer workshops for teachers in universities from coast to coast.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: No. 1 Problem | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

Commission to investigate publishers' complaints of newsprint price-fixing. Last week FTC submitted its findings to the Department of Justice without recommendations and without revealing details. It is now up to Trust Buster Thurman Arnold to determine what action, if any, should be taken against the industry, a question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Curtain | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

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