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After a sensational three-month spurt President Roosevelt's recovery program was slowing down last week. Farm prices had sagged from July highs, leveled out flat. September business was lagging behind August. NRA had yet to produce its miracle of re-employment. Public works made more headlines than new...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: What Next? | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

Fey. Major Fey is the sort of character that feature writers love. Hawk-nosed, with a mouth like a wolftrap. Major Fey has a war record even more gallant than that of his Chancellor. There is in the Austrian Army a decoration that could exist in no other country. Marie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Eve of Renewal | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

The New York Yankees took a big, nerveless German boy away from Columbia University's football and baseball teams in 1923, farmed him out a year to Hartford. In the spring of 1925, Yankee Everett Scott was just finishing his world's record of 1,307 consecutive games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: 1,308 Straight | 8/28/1933 | See Source »

Fifty thousand soft coal miners were on strike in Pennsylvania, the Federal Government's whole recovery program was on the verge of being engulfed in a tidal wave of labor disputes, one evening last week as National Recovery Administrator Johnson climbed into a trimotored Army plane in Washington and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Truce at a Crisis | 8/14/1933 | See Source »

Between 1923 and 1929, 269 indictments were returned, from which only 27 convictions were obtained. In 1929 Republican John Swanson succeeded "Big Bill" Thompson's Robert Crowe as State's Attorney. He talked loudly about law & order but failed dismally to check industrial violence. Last November Democrat Thomas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Big Warm Blanket | 8/7/1933 | See Source »

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