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Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew, for 35 years in the U. S. Foreign Service, is rated one of the ablest career diplomats in U. S. employ. For the last seven years he has held down one of the toughest diplomatic assignments which the State Department has to hand out, the post of Ambassador to Japan. No small measure of his success has been the amiable, unostentatious way he has done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: No. 2 for Bullies | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...Pressed to explain why New York Telephone Co. does not employ an "equitable number" of Jews, one official replied that Jewish girls could not operate equipment "because their arms are too short." A restaurateur alibied that Jewish waitresses do not like to serve nonkosher food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Christian Per Inch | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...only tried to control the newspaper correspondents, it censored and spied on the delegates. . . . Secret service men were found searching the offices of the American delegation. . . . The Government . . . violated diplomatic immunity and examined the delegates' mail. Many chauffeurs assigned to the delegates were known to be in the employ of the secret police. . . . [Peru] used at least two agents provocateurs in its campaign to intimidate visiting correspondents. . . . The censor cut the telephonic communication of Leland Stowe on two occasions while he was dictating his dispatch to the [New York] Herald Tribune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERU: Lima Aftermath | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...private, "is no greater today than it was in 1929." All that the present all-time high national debt of $39,406,000,000 means is that the Government is borrowing and using "otherwise idle funds of individuals and corporations. Private enterprise has been in no position to employ profitably anywhere near the total of the country's savings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Eccles on Economics | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

Masterpiece of the $642,000,000 expansion and modernization program initiated by former Chairman Myron Taylor in 1928, the Irvin Works cost around $45,000,000, were built in 19 months, have 51 acres under roof. Located atop a hill to avoid floods, the plant will employ 3,750 men at capacity, whisk steel from slab to sheet at a speed of 20 m.p.h. Last week's celebration dealt largely with these marvels, barely touched upon the wider significance of the Irvin Works to the Steel Industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Finest Yet | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

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