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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME will win the undying gratitude of a vast number of frightfully bored U. S. citizens if it can effectively convey that undisputed fact to Mrs. Roosevelt"?[the charge that the American people did not elect Roosevelt's family to the Presidency]. To my mind this is the most ungracious and outrageous statement that I have ever seen in print relating, as it does, to the First Lady of the land, and can only be excused by a medical examination showing that its author is a New Jersey clay-eating moron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 13, 1934 | 8/13/1934 | See Source »

...Dealers are trying this fall to elect a Congress of men who are unfriendly to the AAA and unfriendly to the farmers except in superficial lip service. They hope to do away with the processing tax. They recently have been pointing out the fact of the most extraordinary drought in 40 years as an argument for abandoning the entire agricultural adjustment program. This effort to use the fact of the drought as an attack on the Agricultural Adjustment program is typical of the shortsighted leadership of the Republican Party from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Abundance v. Scarcity | 8/13/1934 | See Source »

Vote for the Kaiser's Henchman? Vote for the Profiteer's Friend? Vote for the Hangman of Democracy? If you would elect all four VOTE FOR HINDENBURG...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Crux of Crisis | 7/16/1934 | See Source »

Suddenly the Landis office door popped open and all three commissioners emerged smiling. Messrs. Kennedy and Pecora marched down the corridor side by side in step, turned into Commissioner Matthews' office. There the Commission settled down to elect Mr. Kennedy chairman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: S.E.C. | 7/16/1934 | See Source »

Editor Guy Emery Shipler of The Churchman, weekly liberal journal, in noting that the Roosevelt divorces had caused much talk in Church circles, observed: "The American people didn't elect Roosevelt's family to the Presidency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bishop on Divorces | 7/9/1934 | See Source »

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