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...ever completed, will stretch some 12,000 miles from Alaska to Argentina. First proposed at the Fifth International Conference of American states in Santiago, Chile in 1923, the road immediately fired the imagination of the delegates, was undertaken after enthusiastic endorsement by subsequent conferences and by Presidents Coolidge and Hoover. When the U. S. Congress appropriated $50,000 in 1929 for a reconnaissance survey to start the work in Central America, the first Inter-American Highway Congress was held in Panama, created a commission which has driven the work ahead at a great rate in Central America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Inter-American | 7/6/1936 | See Source »

While Rotary debated in Atlantic City last week, Kiwanis met for its 20th annual convention in Washington. No disturbing questions like Peace bothered the Kiwanians. They went to see President Roosevelt, heard about crime from J. Edgar Hoover, listened intently to Author Will Durant (The Story of Philosophy), meditated upon a pronouncement from Editor Merle Thorpe of Nation's Business that 75% of Government expenditures "fall within the larger definition of boon-doggling." They endorsed better housing, prevention of traffic accidents and opposition to "vicious" Communistic propaganda. For next year's president Kiwanis International named Alfred Copeland Callen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Boosters | 7/6/1936 | See Source »

...possible answers are given. You are to select the best answer and put its number on the line at the right of the number of the question on the answer sheet. Example: 0. The President of the U. S. is (1 Coolidge, 2 Roosevelt, 3 Morgan, 4 Garner, 5 Hoover). Roosevelt is the correct answer. Since the number of this question is 0, the number 2-standing for Roosevelt-has been placed at the right of 0 on the answer sheet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs: Current Affairs, Jun. 29, 1936 | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

...Gangsters Alvin Karpis and Harry Campbell were captured by federal agents under the personal direction of Department of Justice head (1 Grover Whalen, 2 William Burns, 3 Ellis Parker, 4 Pelham D. Glassford, 5 J. Edgar Hoover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs: Current Affairs, Jun. 29, 1936 | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

...chief issue stressed by former President Herbert Hoover in his pre-convention speeches was (1 President Roosevelt's foreign policy, 2 the Tennessee Valley Authority 3 individualism versus the New Deal, 4 the failure of the Government to reduce tariffs, 5 the nomination of Frank Knox...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs: Current Affairs, Jun. 29, 1936 | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

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