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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The facts about Andrew Mellon, other than his fortune, were exceedingly simple. Born at Pittsburgh in 1855, he was the son of a hard-headed Tyrone County Scotch-Irishman who -"ounded the banking house of T. Mellon & Sons. At 18, Andrew quit Western University of Pennsylvania to start a lumber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Death of Mellon | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

Third Deficiency. In 1937, Congress appropriated a total of $9,400,000,000. Not counting last year's $2,237,000,000 for paying the veterans' bonus, this was $1,290,000,000 more than in 1936. Final item of the 1937 total was last week's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Aug. 30, 1937 | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

While violent jingos in the Japanese Army have been controlling the country for years and keeping it on the verge of bankruptcy, the Japanese Navy by & large has played conservative. Worried Japanese businessmen have generally been able to count on the navy's support in efforts to moderate army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-CHINA: Sailors Ashore | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

Among the famous questions raised and seldom settled by letter-writers in the Times have been : Are there any brains in the British Army? Why isn't British ice cream any better (this was headed "Strawberry or Vanilla?")? Who is the oldest Etonian? What is the derivation of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Letters to the Times | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

In the course of signing a $132,732,000 supply bill for the Department of the Interior, the President took note of a provision allotting the maximum $14,483,000 appropriation authorized for Federal aid to vocational education under the George-Deen Act passed in June 1936. This was 10...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Lobby Lashed | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

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