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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...privately from ths White House last week went this warning to Mr. Garner's hopeful wrecking-crew: Franklin Roosevelt will either make the next President or be the next President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Smiling Sphinx | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...responsibility for this must be squarely laid at the door of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, one of our most arbitrary and unsavory unions. Its leaders are a colorful crew, to say the least. Take Uncle Willie Bioff, for example, whose name has been connected with three labor murders, who has been charged with accepting a one hundred thousand dollar bribe, and convicted of pandering in Chicago. But the union is not only shady--it is dictatorial. Controlling all the Boston theatres except the Repertory, which now shows only movies, it forces producers to accept its inordinate demands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LABOR PAINS | 12/16/1939 | See Source »

...vacation at a nearby hotel. and he has been asked to come over to the cabin for "a bit of lunch with the boys." He has already seen the cabin once, during the early stages of its construction, but unfortunately when he dropped in none of the "crew" were around. He left hem a message written in pencil on a 2 x 4, which has been built into the wall in a prominent position and is shown with much pride to any visitor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ski Club Invited To Lake Placid's New Year Tourney | 12/12/1939 | See Source »

...Josephine L. Rathbone worries about people who worry. Dr. Rathbone, a stocky, cheerful little woman who rowed four years on the Wellesley crew and got three degrees in physiology, decided a few years ago that one of the chief troubles with modern men & women is that they do not know how to relax. So, at Columbia University's Teachers College, she started a relaxing clinic. Last week, announcing that in the spring she would give a course to teach people how to teach people how to relax, Dr. Rathbone reported some of her observations on what makes people tense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: How to Relax | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...annual winter meeting in New York Saturday, the American Rowing Coaches Association made another attempt to salvage some of the wreckage that war has made of the 1940 Olympic Games by adopting a resolution that the regular Olympic crew tryouts be held on Princeton's Lake Carnegie as scheduled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OLYMPIC CREW TRIALS SLATED FOR CARNEGIE | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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