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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...permitted another direct quote explaining that he was acting on principle: "If there is a good liberal running on the Republican ticket, I would not have the slightest objection to his election. The good of the country rises above party." Then he sallied forth to Maryland to boost Representative David Lewis, on principle, against Senator Millard Tydings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Sermon on the Shore | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

Origin of the Purge. One evening late last winter, Harry Hopkins called the following men to his house in George town: PWAdministrator Harold Ickes, Assistant to the Attorney General Joseph Keenan, Solicitor General Robert Houghwout Jackson, Assistant WPAdministrator David Niles, Presidential Secretary James Roosevelt, and two more : sometimes called "Washington Service Station,'' "The Twins of Evil," etc., but better identified as the Administration's unofficial legal firm, Corcoran & Cohen. These persons, with one or two more (see col. 2) constitute what in President Jackson's time was called the Kitchen Cabinet. No name more colorful than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Janizariat | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

...Franklin Roosevelt's definition, the nation's choice is between men with social conscience and men without. Maryland has a choice at next week's Democratic primary between Senator Millard E. Tydings, 48, and Representative David John Lewis, 69, for the former's Senate seat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Gnome v. Soldier | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

...Deal's urgent purposes, David Lewis, despite his age, is a natural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Gnome v. Soldier | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

...Government's list calmly. In Palestine, young, race-conscious refugee Jews have been prompt to rid themselves of such German names as Hans, Fritz, Gretchen. Popular today among Palestinian youths are, for males, Uri, Shmuel, Micha; for females, Brocha, Ayala, Ruth. So, in Manhattan last week, reported Mrs. David B. Greenberg, national chairman of "Youth Aliyah," an immigration service sponsored in the U. S. by Hadassah, Women's Zionist Organization. Mrs. Greenberg was pleased to see Hadassah- Biblical name of Esther, Jewish queen and nemesis of the Persian plotter Haman-on the Nazi list. Said she: "Any Jewish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Names | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

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