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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must admit that much of the vitality of America today is due to the constant infusion of new ideas, new energies, new slants on things. We may not choose to swallow any of the 'isms' whole, but certainly we are not so vain, nor so biggotted as to feel we can gain nothing from a philosophy which differs from our own. Grant Wiprud...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

...President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago, gave cash to keep The Beacon burning. Getting such hard-hitting liberals as Harold L. Ickes and Robert Marion La Follette to write for him, Factotum Harris soon found himself free to do an editor's job. His most constant local target was Chicago's notorious Kelly-Nash machine. Editor Harris labeled Mayor Kelly "a Charley McCarthy'' who has "not yet denounced American Motherhood. Aside from that, he hasn't missed a pitch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Beacon Out | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

...Uhler admitted that there might be a slight error in the last digit of one of his values but he had checked and rechecked to hold the possible error to a minimum. "Even a single false digit," said he, "in the published value of a basic constant can cause incalculable loss of time and energy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pi | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

...Relief Loan in full but without interest. As this week's major move against Depression, the President roundly endorsed a plan proposed by his old adversary, Virginia's Carter Glass, to enlarge the loaning facilities of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. In constant touch with Washington by telephone, the President was rewarded finally by a cheering piece of news; that, despite a strong ninth-inning rally by adversaries of his Reorganization Bill, the Senate had finally passed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Georgia Pique | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry.) announced that this month it would begin operating 50 completely air-conditioned busses between Chicago and points west to Los Angeles. The new busses, square-fronted and streamlined, have separate four-cylinder engines to operate the cooling and air conditioning mechanisms, maintain a constant temperature of 65°. Cost: $17,200 each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Bus Conditioning | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

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