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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Naturally, I don't expect you'll dare to print this either, but I just had to get it off my chest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 17, 1939 | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...consolidated Federal Security Agency. In that post, at Washington. Candidate McNutt could be kept under surveillance and control, throttled if necessary. Or he could be built up as heir-apparent if that seemed more desirable. Able, ambitious executive that he is, he could be counted on in either case to do a good job for aged pensioners, youthful school-reliefers, CCC, public health, employment service and the Office of Education. On condition that his friends be allowed to keep on booming him, radiant Mr. McNutt accepted. Proclaimed he: I am appreciative of the tremendous responsibility of administering such a program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Cannon-Cracker | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...month following this Neutrality Act Italy invaded Ethiopia. There was no declaration of hostilities, but three days after fighting began, the President called it a war. He invoked the Act and solemnly warned U. S. citizens not to travel on either Italian or Ethiopian liners. No arms were shipped to either side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE UNITED STATES: How to be Neutral | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...titanic paper war. At reports of far-flung air battles engaging several hundred planes, the skeptical New York Herald Tribune cocked an editorial eyebrow, suggested that the Japanese had drunk too much native sorghum whisky and mistook Lake Bor bustards for Soviet bombers. The only alternative conclusions were: "Either the units of the Japanese Kwantung Army . . . have developed a talent for fiction ... or they are engaged in an undeclared war with the Soviet Union on a scale that deserves a more sophisticated audience than the local nomads and their herds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OUTER MONGOLIA: Bombers or Bustards | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

...Phenix City, Ala., a prosperous town of 13,862 inhabitants, you can buy pretty much everything in the way of standard U. S. commodities, entertainment, even a good many luxuries. But if you want to read a book in Phenix City, you must either borrow one or go across the Chattahoochee River to Columbus, Ga. Phenix City has no bookstore. It has no library either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cheap Books | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

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