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...gave an artificial boom to U. S. shipyards, and at 29 Joe Kennedy became boss of Bethlehem Steel's Fore River Shipbuilding Corp. After the War, as the U. S. merchant marine began to go under for the second time, Joe Kennedy cut loose to make millions on Wall Street and Broadway. In 1935, when President Roosevelt asked Congress to revive U. S shipping, Joe Kennedy was the nationally acclaimed chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission, the New Deal's most successful reform to date. Last summer Congress passed the Ship Subsidy Act, authorizing a five-man Maritime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Kennedy In | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

...however, nowadays. And now that men's corsetry has come to the fore in America, things are much worse. Paunchy old men have been taking eight inches off their waists with the Well belt for many a year now, but they at least were old men, and fully dressed. The modern trend to a greater perfection in dress, heralded by the invention of the zipper, has let down all the bars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Off Key | 3/10/1937 | See Source »

...brunette, a blonde and a redhead, all young and pretty, to act as publicity building "hostesses" on a demonstrator model of the new vehicles. Said Vic Meyers: "They will be neat, sweet and discreet. To protect them in the rush hour we'll put bumpers on them, fore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Neat, Sweet and Discreet | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

...revamped team that staged an upset in the 35-25 Yale game when the whistle blows at Gambridge tomorrow night. Willie Thomas, last year's All-League forward and this year's high scorer, will be paired with Sophomore Joe Batchelder, 6 foot, 2 inch converted guard, in the fore court. Captain Hal Parachini and football's Sophomore flash Bob McLeod will held down the gurad posts, with Joe Cottone in reserve...

Author: By Stanley Brown, The Dartmouth, and Basketball Editor, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON.)S | Title: INDIANS PLAN ATTACK ON BASKETBALL TEAM | 2/10/1937 | See Source »

...wealthy Boston shoe manufacturer, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Charles Hayden specialized in economics and mining engineering. Fore seeing the expansion of electrical power, he made up his mind to get rich in copper. Charles Hayden proposed to do so not by mining copper but by speculating in copper. Year after graduation he took a $3-a-week job as a "ticker boy" to learn the inside of a broker's office. At 21 he was ready to borrow $20,000 from his father, launch his own brokerage business with his officemate Galen L. Stone, whose Milk Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: For Nobler Men | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

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