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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though the Roosevelt-Wallace farm philosophies meshed, in 1932 Franklin Roosevelt did not get the ideas in question direct from Philosopher Wallace. Candidate Roosevelt took advice on the farm problem from others who shared the Wallace idea that farmers needed something more than price rigging. Among them was Professor Rexford Guy Tugwell of Columbia University, who in 1928 had tried to sell Al Smith a farm program which that salty sidewalk philosopher somehow couldn't swallow. Among them was red-faced, downright George Peek, who had grown interested in export subsidies while he and his partner Hugh Johnson were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Hay Down | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...functions among other divisions), he upped four trusted men to the chief jobs around him. Bald Howard R. Tolley, a thinker like his boss, was relieved of his tasks as Administrator to head the revamped Bureau of Agriculture Economics. Economist Albert G. Black, an energetic, 42-year-old idea man, was given Marketing & Regulation. Promoted to head new divisions were Soil Conserver H. H. Bennett (Physical Land Use) and Chemist Henry G. Knight (Research & Technology). Closer than any of these to the Secretary is lean, loyal, Lincolnesque Under Secretary Milburn Lincoln Wilson, a fellow alumnus of Iowa State College whose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Hay Down | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...Some idea of how realistic might be the results of the democracy v. dictatorship discussions could be got from the character of the building in which the delegates sat down to business. It was the hall of the Peruvian Congress, Hispanic, charming, but a little small for the 136 delegates. The Congress has not met for more than two years, having been sent home in 1936 by General Oscar R. Benavides, who has run Peru singlehanded ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: At Lima | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...Some idea of the new pact's domestic popularity was given by the large number of prominent French politicians who went to hear a speech given in Paris the night of the signing by Alfred Duff Cooper, former British First Lord of the Admiralty. Warned Mr. Duff Cooper, who resigned because he could not "stomach" the Munich Pact: "War cannot be avoided by perpetual concessions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Hatchet Buried? | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...years ago F. C. Packard, Jr. '20 assistant professor of Public Speaking conceived the idea of a "vocarium" in order to make a collection of records of speech and, with this object in mind, has had a number of recordings made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ultra-Modern Recording Instrument Recently Acquired for Poetry Room | 12/16/1938 | See Source »

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