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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time he reached Des Moines for his meeting with Alf Landon (see col. 3), President Roosevelt had seen the worst of the Drought. Rolling East next day into the mild Drought belt, he stopped at Hannibal, Mo. to help dedicate a Mark Twain Memorial bridge across the Mississippi. At Springfield, Ill. for Drought talks with Illinois officials, a telephone talk with Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau gave him occasion to declare: "The obligations of the Government-of the United States-are on a sounder basis of credit than ever before in history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Journey of Husbandry | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

While these plans were being perfected, Franklin Roosevelt, leisurely rolling East from Salt Lake City, with stops for Drought inspection in Wyoming, Colorado, and Nebraska, was pondering his own strategic problems. Well did he know that it was Nominee Landon's prospective attendance which had converted an otherwise routine conference into a spectacularly newsworthy event. He realized, too, that any attempt to take political advantage of that circumstance would react sharply against him. Day before the meeting it was announced that he would not seek to commit his conferees to any statement of policy. Sternly rejected was a proposal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Strange Interlude | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

...whereabouts of Edward VIII last week were Greece (see p. 22), and Turkey. At Istanbul the greatest statesman in the Near East, Kamal Ataturk, who overthrew the Turkish Sultanate and Caliphate, abolished the fez and is rapidly making the Turkish Republic a powerful and modern State, undertook to send the British royal party comfortably home overland. For this purpose the Turkish Presidential Train was transferred from Asia to Europe by ferrying it across the Bosporus. Quitting the $1,350,000 chartered royal yacht Nahlin and chuffing into Bulgaria, Edward VIII in a general way made for London, giving out that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: 30,000,000 Edwards | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

...Championship of the U. S. and became the city's heroine. To Helen Jacobs, a moody, introspective little girl who disliked everything about San Francisco except the colorful life of Italian fishermen along the waterfront, Helen Wills's triumph, achieved in the distant and mysteriously exciting East, minimized her own victory. It also opened vistas of a glamorous future and Helen Jacobs decided to emulate it. What gave this decision impetus was that when Helen Wills's coach at last arranged a game between the two girls. Helen Wrills won 6-0 in seven minutes. What gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Favorite at Forest Hills | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

Broadcasting major football games has been routine for ten years. In the East, most colleges have given away radio rights with the understanding that the broadcast would be a ''sustaining" (i. e., noncommercial) feature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Refining Influence | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

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