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In his brief speech the President used the word "spiritual" twelve times to describe the quality of the Red Cross and the public response to its $10,000,000 appeal. He credited its "farsighted and early action" with averting "infinite suffering." He praised it for resisting the movement in Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Spiritual | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

The New York Times has five assistant managing editors. Next week it will have six. From his London post as chief of the Times's foreign service Virginia-born Correspondent Edwin L. ("Jimmie") James sailed for home to "go to school" in Publisher Ochs's executive department. Healthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Times Change | 12/8/1930 | See Source »

Farsighted young men about to enter college and with an eye to getting along in the world might have scanned with interest last week some statistics in the current School & Society on the distribution of university alumni in Who's Who, 1928-29. To begin with they would have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Who's Whence | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

In France (almost the only great nation not burdened by unemployment) farsighted, go-getting Prime Minister André Tardieu last week presented the Chamber of Deputies Finance Committee with a broad, comprehensive Five-Year Plan of Public Works.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Tardieu's Accelerator | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

In the capitals of the Great Powers, Dutch diplomats school themselves to smile instead of wincing at the question which hostesses all ask sooner or later: "And how is dear little Holland?"* Proud were Dutchmen last week when dear little Holland completed with her own money, her own materials, her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Dear Little | 5/12/1930 | See Source »

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