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...felt that Governor Roosevelt was afraid to join forces with the President because he did not want to exhibit publicly his own lack of a debt plan. "I-told-you-so" Republicans chortled about their pre-election predictions that President Hoover's defeat would produce just such a hiatus in economic recovery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Debts Dropped | 1/2/1933 | See Source »

Followed a four-day hiatus, due to the death of the Mayor's younger brother George. The Mayor was put to bed with a case of "nervous exhaustion." He could not attend the wake. For George Walker's funeral at St. Patrick's Cathedral most of Tammany Hall turned out as mourners. The ceremony and crowds were more a tribute to the Mayor than to his unknown brother. At the interment in Long Island City the Mayor looked wan and hollow-cheeked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: McKee for Walker | 9/12/1932 | See Source »

Echoes of days when feeling ran high are heard in a Crimson article for November 26, 1894, which gave the following version of the game that year, under the heading: "Yale Wins the Game; Harvard plays the Better, but Loses Through III-Luck and Bad Decisions." A two-year hiatus in the series with the Blue ensued...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Defeat in Heated 1894 Struggle Laid to "III-Luck And Bad Decisions--Substitutes for Substitutes Go In" | 11/21/1931 | See Source »

Policeman. Meantime, Referee Seabury's inquiry into the lower courts, oldest of his three current inquisitions, suddenly bore more fruit after a hiatus of several weeks. Policeman Richard B. Ganly, onetime vice squad member, was sentenced to from four to eight years in Sing Sing for testifying falsely against a woman in a specious prostitution case. Policeman Ganly is the second vice squad man to .be sentenced from testimony dug up by the Seabury investigation. His counsel pleaded that he be sent to a Federal penitentiary rather than to the State's prison. Two months ago Policeman Ganly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Scandals of New York (Cont'd) | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

...Labor employment agency (now placing 1,300,000 workers per year) and set up new and larger machinery for co-ordinate job-finding between the Federal and state governments. President Hoover's major reaction to the bill was, he said, a fear that it would create a hiatus between the old and new systems which would hurt, not help, joblessness. Fortified with arguments from his Attorney General and his Secretary of Labor, the President said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Old Horses & New | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

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