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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt announced last Christmastide that he would leave to the nation all his private papers since 1910 (numbering some 8,000,000 items) if admirers would build, with private funds, a repository for them at Hyde Park on land which he would donate, and if Congress would keep it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Library, Librarian | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

Mr. Hughes is the second man in history to have been both Justice and Chief Justice. The first was Edward Douglass White, whose colleagues in 1910 unanimously petitioned President Taft for his elevation to lead them. Mr. Hughes resigned from the Court in 1916 to run for President, went back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Absentee | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

On the grim, tide-gnawed rock called Alcatraz just inside San Francisco's Golden Gate, the prisoners are counted every 30 minutes. They live in silence, permitted no talk except what is essential to their work, save on Saturdays when (if they have been good) they converse under guard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Those Babies | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

There has been no time when Lindbergh and the public ever fully understood each other. The supreme irony is that if they had understood, there would have been no difficulty. Lindbergh is a kind of man whom Americans instinctively appreciate and like: practical and resourceful, with a mechanical turn of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Press v. Lindbergh | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

> When Mrs. Lindbergh returned last month to the U. S. on the Champlain, during the voyage an International News photographer aboard, unobserved, took pictures of Jon and Land Lindbergh (born in England). He took to his office a series of shots worth $5,000 to any big U. S. newspaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Press v. Lindbergh | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

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