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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just one delegate to the World Monetary and Economic Conference was a hero last week to his people. Russia's roly-poly Maxim Maximovich Litvinov. While the Conference proper stewed over stabilization (see p.15), Comrade Litvinov bustled busily around London attending to three major outside jobs. In his thick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Three for Litvinov | 7/10/1933 | See Source »

(3 of 3) might be trying to create, ultimately, a four-power junta to boss Europe, but he left the impression that nothing would please him better. Sirens shrieked. Il Duce dashed from the Senate, followed by the three ambassadors in their cars, to his vast, lofty, stone-floored office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Peace Declared! | 6/19/1933 | See Source »

A Roland for an Untermyer, or a Walsh or a Davis, Inquisitor Pecora did a much better job of establishing substantial information about private banking on which to base legislation. With time to search and prepare, he never dropped a question until he got his answer. Yet it was not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wealth on Trial | 6/12/1933 | See Source »

Senator Carey contended that by awarding a contract to Be Vier & Co., Inc. of Manhattan to supply 200,000 kits at $1.40 each, Director Robert Fechner of the C. C. C. had wasted $216,000 of the Government's money, since the Army could have bought such kits for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Toilet Kit Tempest | 6/12/1933 | See Source »

On Memorial Day morning, Warden Kirk Prather stepped out into the prison yard of the Kansas State Penitentiary. In one more day Warden Prather, a bald, big-nosed man, was to complete his two-year tour of duty. He had just come back from Washington where, as a deserving Democrat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Lansing Break | 6/12/1933 | See Source »

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