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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator David I. Walsh of Massachusetts endorsed the recently formed Harvard Congress in a letter yesterday saying "this Congress should be of great assistance in disseminating information about public affairs" and a "means of arousing interest in social, political, and economic problems...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Walsh Warns Against Party Bias in Harvard Congress | 3/15/1938 | See Source »

...Authority. David Eli Lilienthal is a young lawyer, a former associate of Donald Richberg, with a background of fighting Wisconsin utility companies as a member of the La Follettes' Public Service Commission. The Great TVA Schism, boiled down to its essentials, means simply that Powerman Lilienthal, whose chief interest is selling cheap power, and Engineer Morgan, who disapproves of the constant struggling with utility companies which this entails, look at TVA from different angles and are equally uncompromising. Because Harcourt Morgan agrees with David Lilienthal, practical result has been a constant 2-to-1 collision on the Board, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER: Morgan v. Morgan & Lilienthal | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

...Bund centres are New York, Milwaukee and Los Angeles. Separate editions of the Deutscher Weckruf are printed in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and Los Angeles. Unfortunately for its reputation as a legitimate wing of Naziism, the Bund did not suffer in the least when the Hitler Government disavowed all interest in it for the first time, two years ago. Instead, its membership steadily rose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bund Banned | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

Yagoda, Nothing could distract the main interest from prisoner No. 1, Henry Yagoda, who not only was chief power of the Stalin Secret Political Police in Russia from 1920 to 1936, but according to the pro-Soviet British Historians, Beatrice and Sidney Webb, was once "Vice-Chairman of the Intelligence Department of the U. S. S. R. for the United States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Lined With Despair | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

...improved model-an octagonal two-man job of corrosion-resisting steel, with one blank wall which the subjects face and seven bullet-proof windows for people with a scientific interest. It was designed by an enthusiastic artist named Earl C. Liston. It costs $5,000, about $1,000 more than an ordinary chamber, but it is worth it. With its hydrocyanic gas, it can kill two humans at a time, quickly, efficiently, without any mess. Says Earl Liston, with a craftsman's pride: "Our calculations show that this new chamber should snuff out the life in about 15 seconds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Death in an Octagon | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

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