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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, University of Wisconsin's tanbark-floored livestock pavilion at Madison was the scene of a mass meeting which may or may not become retrospectively as important to U. S. history as the convention in Ripon. Into the pavilion swarmed some 5,000 invited guests, for whose benefit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIRD PARTIES: Progressives at Madison | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

If the Democrats re-elect a Governor in Pennsylvania this fall he will probably control 72 votes at the next Democratic National Convention, might easily have the deciding say on who got the Presidential nomination. That is the biggest piece of the political booty over which Keystone State Democrats, having...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Wall Flower | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

WASHINGTON--Chairman Jesse-Jones of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation today bluntly told the nation's bankers that they have been neither wise nor energetic in meeting the credit needs of the country and warned that government control of banking is a "live" subject. Addressing a round-table gathering at the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 5/5/1938 | See Source »

Last week at the American Chemical Society's convention in Dallas, Dr. Abraham White. 30-year-old professor of physiological chemistry at Yale University, announced that he had done the trick: extracted prolactin in the form of chemically pure crystals. His first physiological tests of the crystalline hormone seemed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Prolactin | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

Freedom of the press notwithstanding, almost everything said and done at the annual Washington convention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors is off the record. Farthest off the record is the informal "interview" with the President. But last week, when the nation's editors left the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Recorders Off The Record | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

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