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Like two dogs who feel they have an urgent appointment with a rabbit, the two major party candidates for President last week coursed hither and yon, frantically nosing crisscross tracks which to their nostrils had a delicious odor of election. Every time the scent turned and twisted, the two hounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Grand Finale | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

It was further made clear last week, as the mists of minor issues rolled away, that Alf Landon was playing his opponent's game. The New Deal had not helped but hindered the return of Prosperity, drummed the Republican Nominee; real Prosperity could not be said to exist while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Prosperity Rampant | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

Geologists agree that during Pleistocene times the ocean surface was 7,000 to 10,000 ft. below its present level. Some 3,000 ft. of this lowering could have been caused by the ice sheets a mile or more thick which, in North America, crawled down as far as Kentucky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Gorge Picture | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

Last fortnight hard rains scattered spring freshets throughout New England, New York, New Jersey. Last week a huge low-pressure centre, heavy with moisture from the Gulf, formed over Texas, moved slowly northeast over the Appalachian Highlands. The moisture cooled, fell in torrents on a land just emerging from one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Hell in the Highlands | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

If such thoughts coursed through Franklin Roosevelt's busy brain, they were secret. Only two concrete hints reached the Press last week. One came from CCC Director Fechner. He admitted that the Administration plans to cut the CCC enrollment from 460,000 to 300,000 to reduce the number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Bogged in Budget | 12/30/1935 | See Source »

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