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Dates: during 1930-1939
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To this double negative, Secretary Hull last week, again with the help of Under Secretary Sumner Welles's forceful pen, dispatched an answer. He declared that expropriation without compensation is "bald . . . unadulterated confiscation"; that Mexico's attitude was alien to the constitutions and undermined confidence in the fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Bald, Unadulterated | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

-*The U. S. Civil Service Commission last week warned its 533,325 classified Federal employes to abstain from political campaigns.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Money for Politics | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

In residential Ridgewood, N. J., Mayor Frank D. Livermore got tired of seeing pickets of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen's Union (A. F. of L.) trudging up & down in front of the Charles F. Wenger stores carrying angry strike signs. Last week, Mayor Livermore submitted to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Price on Picketing | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

Former head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the 38-year-old Landis came to Harvard to head the Law School last fall.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Landis Moves For Reform In Cambridge Government | 9/1/1938 | See Source »

...assistant to famed Criminal Lawyer Clarence Darrow in 1910, Charles D. Mahaffie was appointed to the Interstate Commerce Commission eight years ago. Since then he has been ICC's chief dissenter - notably on railroad reorganizations which, he said in 1936, "have not been sufficiently drastic." Last week, with Commissioner Mahaffie alone dissenting, ICC approved a reorganization plan as drastic as any ever devised for a major U.S. railroad. Under this plan, portentous for an industry snowed under by its bonded debt, Chicago Great Western Railroad's capitalization will be cut from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Portent Approved | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

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