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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German. And what a Germans. They make more trouble for Csech goverment than thouse shmutzig Teutons. Henlein their leader is half Csech himself and Csechoslov citisen. So Hitler's mother was Csech. Any other country would hang up Henlein long ago. ... If France, Russia and sly England will help Csechs it won't be because they like them, but because they know after they would get Csech German would turn on them. Hitler wants war and the sudeten half Czechs and half German is not the reason but it would be his alibi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 20, 1938 | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

When Harry Hopkins fired Victor Christgau last month, Mr. Christgau said it was because he had refused to let Governor Elmer Benson get control of 60,000 Minnesota jobs for his Farmer-Labor Party, to help him get re-elected in November. Chief quarrel between Mr. Christgau and Mr. Benson had been over a $700,000 project to have 2,000 or more WPA laborers eradicate weeds-notably leafy spurge, creeping jenny-from Minnesota farms. Mr. Christgau announced he would be fired by no one but the President, who had hired him. Forced to choose between Victor Christgau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Leafy Spurge & Creeping Jenny | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

...exist under the present system. And in addition the University would have admitted the failure of a large portion of the House Plan and would have found a much less desirable substitute. If dances are left in student hands John Harvard will be able to get along without the help of Joe College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JOHN CAN GET ALONG | 6/15/1938 | See Source »

...sleuthing. Last week it was promptly followed by another in Princeton, Fla., a hot-dog hamlet just below Miami, on the highway to Key West. There chubby, blond James Bailey ("Skeegie") Cash Jr., 5½, had been put to bed and left by his mother while she went to help her husband shut their grocery store for the night. Some one slit the rear screen door and carried off the child in his pajamas. Lodgers upstairs heard only a faint sound which they thought was the Cashes coming home. A ransom note was found at the house of Mr. Cash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Atrocious Revival | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

...Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 needed any revision. Mr. Douglas said no; the magnates said yes. But the two got along well enough for SEC to announce progress toward "a harmonious relationship." Few days later, Chairman Douglas published a statement in The Annalist offering SEC's help in whatever utility recapitalizations may soon be necessary to release $432,000,000 in accumulated unpaid preferred dividends. Finally, though the Senate took Franklin Roosevelt's advice and voted down the suggestion that PWA be prohibited from further building of power plants in competition with private industry, Senator Alben...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Government's Week: Jun. 13, 1938 | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

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