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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Site for a central U. S. silver storage vault comparable to the gold cache at Fort Knox, Ky. (TIME, Jan. 25 et ante], was approved last week by Secretary of War Harry Woodring: four acres near the old north gate on the U. S. Military Academy reservation at West Point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: New Mint | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

Weary from his labors in behalf of anti-lynching legislation (TIME, April 19 et seq.), Representative Arthur Wergs Mitchell, only Negro in the U. S. Congress, last month decided he needed a rest. A Chicagoan, big, grey-haired Arthur Mitchell chose to spend his holiday at Hot Springs, Ark., favorite rest haven of Chicago politicians. Instead of going direct from Washington, he returned home first, bought a first-class round-trip railroad ticket and Pullman accommodations on the Illinois Central, set out from Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Jim Crow Suit | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

...large and small, than the State Department. Prime secrets of State are treaty negotiations. Last week Mrs. J. Borden ("Daisy") Harriman, who has been a woman for 66 years, had been a diplomat only five minutes when, immediately after being sworn in as Minister to Norway (TIME, April 12 et seq.), she received the press. At her elbow stood the State Department's grey, genial pressagent, Chief Michael J. McDermott of the Division of Current Information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: First Lesson | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

...final strains of "Fair Harvard", sung by the Glee Club et al, were dwindling off and mingling in concord with the towering spires of Memorial, Sever, and Weld Halls. The soothing clutches of night were clasping the Yard in its soft embrace, for lack of anything better...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TOM THUMB YARD CONCERT ECHOES FROM THAYER STEPS | 5/19/1937 | See Source »

...embroiled in a tawdry, name-calling squabble with Richman, to whom he no longer speaks (TIME, Sept. 28). Back on his regular run for Eastern Air Lines, Dick Merrill next made news by wrapping his ship around a mountain, miraculously without injury to his eight passengers (TIME, Dec. 28 et seq.). Last week. Pilot Merrill finally got into the headlines with news of a more successful sort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: 21 Hours | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

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