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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hook snapped off, but one of the fish (a 100-pounder) became so entangled in Angler Roosevelt's wire leader that the President was able to land it. That day also he landed his heaviest catch to date, a 230-lb. shark, which revenged him somewhat on the Cocos shark tribe for stealing many fish off his hook.* To greet the U. S. President at Balboa came Panama's President Juan Demóstenes Arosemena, bearing a gift of rare Panamanian stamps, a complete album of every issue since 1897, in a casket of polished hardwood. They motored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Return of Ulysses | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

...same date all Germany's Jews over three months old must obtain similar cards, costing $1.20, must present them on all occasions, social or business. Objects: to trace criminals, raise revenue, prevent goys from dealing with non-Aryans inadvertently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Paternalism | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...balloons, are often in operating condition even after falling from great heights. A slender, blond young Englishman who went to the U. S. in 1930, Physicist Easton enrolled at Caltech two years ago to take his Master's degree, is now working for his Ph.D. To date he has built no working model of his design. Said he: "There is no reason to build a working model. Any radio man in the country could do it easily. There is nothing to test because the only way to test it is to crack up a ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Plane Finder | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...that the Motor Carriers Act was designed for safety reasons, not for "economic or social ends," the ICC. clung to the 60-hr. week but specified that there be at least eight hours off duty in every 24 and immediate relief from duty after every ten hours. Effective date: October 1. ¶ Bought some $8,000,000 worth of men's and boys' clothing, first batch under the $10,000,000 kitty set aside by WPA simultaneously to lance the clotted clothing inventory and to aid the needy. Handled by the Treasury's Procurement Division, the purchases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Open Door | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

This decree, coordinating and bringing up to date ordinances dating in Austria back to 1897, in Germany back to 1868, did not make bullish reading for German investors. They remember how in 1914 much German smart money took its prof its and got out of the market just before the War. Nazi newsorgans attributed last week's break to: 1) turning of securities into cash by German firms desirous of raising further working capital amid the Rearmament scramble; 2) forced sales by Jews squeezed in Vienna and elsewhere in Germany by fresh "Aryanization" measures, one of which excludes Jewish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Bad News | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

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