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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the yellow and white ballroom lights in Memphis' swank Hotel Peabody, 600 Southern farm folk sat ill at ease one night last week, waiting for the big moment. It came late in the evening-at 9:30 p. m. Most of the farmers' kids were already asleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Plant-to-Prosper | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

When he proudly put his name to the Social Security Act (Aug. 14, 1935), Architect Franklin Roosevelt observed that the law was "the cornerstone in a structure which is being built, but is by no means complete." Last year the Senate Finance Committee, beset by the clamor of other architects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOCIAL SECURITY: New Blueprints | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

To London last week for a "private visit" went Adolf Hitler's financial magician, clammy-handed, high-colored Dr. Hjalmar Schacht. President of the Reichsbank. Dr. Schacht is the only German bigwig who is persona grata in British financial circles for, despite the way he has kicked around the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Private Visit | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

One fine spring-fever day in 1929 a high-keyed, hawk-nosed, 28-year-old publisher named George Macy paid a well-plotted call on a Wall Street broker named Jack O. (for nothing) Straus. Publisher Macy was in search of an angel. He outlined for Broker Straus a heavenly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: De Luxe | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

Both of the Trojan goals and two of the Crimson's were made against a short handed opponent, with one score for each of the four penalties in the game. When Hadder's men really rolled up the points in the last period, it was largely through their ability to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEXTET DOWNS WESTERN TROJANS 6-2; FESLERMEN OVERCOME TERRIERS 50-37 | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

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