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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Two days passed and then the Washington Times-Herald headlined: "NEUTRALITY NOTE SPLITS F. D., HULL." This was over a United Press story to the effect that Mr. Roosevelt wanted to blast at the Senate, that Mr. Hull was restraining him lest he irreparably widen the gulf between him and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Rebels and Ripsnorter | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

» Worked over the House's changes in Social Security so as to: 1) freeze at 1% (instead of 1½%) the old-age insurance tax for both employer and employe; 2) raise widows' payments; 3) start payments in 1940 instead of 1942; 4) increase payments to workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Jul. 24, 1939 | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

I read with amusement your statement under Radio (TIME, May 22) that the news broadcasts of the B.B.C. are "straight and accurate." Actually, nothing could be further from the truth, as the B.B.C. is as Red as they make 'em, and its distorted, lying and slanderous statements are equalled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 17, 1939 | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

The beaten Republicans and hard-money Democrats were left with nothing to show for their pains except a remote legal cloud hanging over the act. Since it was an act only to extend that which died before the act was passed, could the act resurrect the dead? Attorney General Murphy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Barter | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

If the Rt. Hon. Arthur Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister, wants to convince Adolf Hitler that Britain will allow him no further land grabs, one sure way to do it would be to give a Cabinet job to the Rt. Hon. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, M.P. for Epping. For the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Winnie For Sea Lord? | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

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