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Dates: during 1930-1939
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For almost seven years Franklin Delano Roosevelt has been pretty much his own Secretary of the Navy. Last week Columnist Raymond Clapper chided him for being his own Secretary of State. And last week the President himself stepped out in front as his own Secretary of something like Military Economics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Westward Ho! | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Last week things got out of hand in his office. Two more corporate safes were on their way to him. Busy rearranging his office to squeeze them in, he was thinking of moving to new quarters. The newcomers: big United Shoe Machinery Corp. (assets: $124,468,000), formerly of Paterson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: Gift Horses | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

The story has no more twists than a propeller, but moves at about the same speed. Brad Reynolds (Randolph Scott) is thirtyish and already too old for the airlines. The Civil Aeronautics Authority gives him a chance to get younger men off the ground, try to teach them to stay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 13, 1939 | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

When the Earl of Essex returns from sinking the Spanish fleet, spitfiery, red-wigged Elizabeth rewards him with a majestic slap in front of the delighted court. It seems he should have brought back the Spanish bullion ships intact. In Ireland, where he gets himself sent, Essex is defeated when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 13, 1939 | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Once there was a little man in a long black coat who roamed the hard-coal fields of Pennsylvania, doing mighty deeds for the United Mine Workers of America. He was John Mitchell, and quite a boy. At 28, he was president of the union; at 32 (in 1902), he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: John's Boy | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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