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John Roy Steelman, director of the U. S. Department of Labor's conciliation service, was in a most unhappy state. His manuscript rattled in his hands, he stumbled over his words. At the behest of Madam Secretary Frances Perkins, he had come to Manhattan to make peace between operators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Humble John | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

A vivid and varied spectacle, the Aquacade Revue is almost certain to win first place in the Fair's entertainment list. Ashore, Crooners Frances Williams and Morton Downey blare out tunes good & bad while hordes of gay, limbsome "aquafemmes" prance and promenade. Afloat Swimmers Eleanor Holm and Johnny Weissmuller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Show in Queens | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

Though very much of a power in Indiana, George A. Ball, glass-jar tycoon of Muncie, was practically unknown when Oris Paxton Van Sweringen and Mantis James Van Sweringen called upon him in 1935. "0. P." and "M. J." were $50,000,000 in the hole and J. P. Morgan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Four Short Years | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

> Mrs. Cordell Hull, Mrs. Henry Wallace & Miss Frances Perkins played hostess at the White House for the D. A. R., from which Mrs. Roosevelt resigned because of its refusal to let Negro Contralto Marian Anderson sing in Constitution Hall. Mrs. Roosevelt was en route by air from Seattle to Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Hush Week | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

In the case of U. S. v. Strecker (TIME, Feb. 20), the Court had to decide whether past membership in the Communist Party of the U. S. constitutes ground for deportation of an unnaturalized alien. The alien in the case is Galician-born Joseph George Strecker, a coal-digger who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Douglas In, Streaker In | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

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