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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...keep us out of war. This desire is well-night universal among American citizens...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ex-President Lowell Urges Repeal of Arme Embargo in Letter to Congress | 10/26/1939 | See Source »

...week (the Dallas News was paying him $55) and got it. But when he opened his first pay envelope in Boston he found $75. "There's been a mistake," Bill told his Sports Editor. "I'm only making $50." Said the Sports Editor: "Keep it, you dumb bastard-that's what you should have asked for in the first place." Bill kept it. He has never had to ask the Post for a raise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ill-tempered Clavichord | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...tempestuous, highbrowed Jay Catherwood Hormel, president of meat-packing (Geo. A.) Hormel & Co., World War II is anathema. How to keep the U. S. out of it has become his most solemn thought. Month ago at Chicago's American Legion Convention he got a bright idea: a popular song, a song that would sweep the nation like Barney Google or The Music Goes 'Round and 'Round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Spam for Peace | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...view, tends to restrict production and employment instead of cutting prices, and since 50 years of trust-busting have shown the impossibility of making them stay busted, another course becomes appropriate: "If a job in corporate industry constituted a property right . . . industrial managers would normally find it profitable to keep their workers fully occupied," thus expanding production, lowering prices. Parkes argues that workers would give up a fixed wage if they were free to choose their industries, guaranteed (within limits) a job, and if wages varied suitably with corporate profits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Constructive Anatomy | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Burgy may be ready for action Saturday, but there is some doubt over the condition of Joe Koufman who had a recurrence of his old injury. Loren MacKinney, Henry Vander Eb, and Tom Grover received minor bumps, which shouldn't keep them out for long...

Author: By Sheffield West, | Title: Crimson Not Discouraged After 22 to 7 Setback at Hands of Powerful Quakers | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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