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Accepting this resignation from the man who had been his first chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission and who was shortly to become his new Ambassador to the Court of St. James, the President replied: "My dear Joe . . . You have maintained your justly earned reputation of being a two-fisted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: Kennedy Candor | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

Inflation of the German mark after the War ruined a rich uncle who had offered to set up Martin Niemoller as a farmer in Tecklenburg. He turned to the relative financial security of Germany's State-supported Lutheran Church, became a pastor in 1924. Ten years later Pastor Niemoller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Dynamite | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

Of Human Hearts (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is dedicated to the proposition that a boy's best friend is his mother, proves its point by the legend that Abraham Lincoln once summoned a young officer from a Civil War battlefield to tell him so. But before it begins gesturing at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 21, 1938 | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

Most ominous Cabinet member is iron-fisted General Martinez Anido, Minister of Public Order, who for the past ten months has headed Franco's secret police, his hard bitten Guardia Civil, his frontier and highway guards. He was for seven years Minister of the Interior under Spain's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New Cabinet | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

Last week a somewhat showy light in the East appeared for U. S. artists who would like to do serious illustrations for good books. Foregathered for a grand dinner in the Jade Room of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria were 300 socialite members of an organization known as The Limited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Artists & Books | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

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