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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 up in perpetuity with public funds. Last week this offer lay before the House for acceptance. To Mr. Roosevelt's admirers' dismay, it was declined...
Last week it started another job that may lead 62-year-old Board Chairman Willis Haviland Carrier and his company, largest in the business, into an entirely new field. Already air conditioning is an important factor in the textile industry, which uses controlled humidity to keep threads from breaking on high speed looms. Air conditioning's new job is to improve pig iron...
...curious ability to serve two masters with fidelity and impartiality persisted. At his parties he liked to mix Red with Tory indiscriminately and rib all sides unmercifully. He had a positive distaste for money. Once a friend deposited $1,000,000 to his account, told him to keep what he could make with it. Having a million worried Alex Gumberg so much that he finally gave it back. Of Alex Gumberg, Judge Thacher said last week...
...Denver. Old-time Western rancher, Mackenzie became king of U. S. cattlemen, operated 1,000,000 acres in Texas, New Mexico and Colorado, once scolded President Theodore Roosevelt: "You said you'd give me 20 minutes and you've done all the talking. Now you'll keep your word and listen to me." Cattleman Mackenzie never carried a gun. Said he: "I'm too big to do any gunfighting. Nobody could possibly miss me." His biggest triumph: the 1906 Hepburn Act, which brought cattlemen fixed interstate freight rates...
Corporal Hino's main point: war is uncomfortable. Even a dictatorship cannot keep this cold and muddy fact a secret, with 10,000 soldiers writing home every week. Smart Japanese know it is better to have the fact heroically stated by a soldier who is doing his bit, especially when he also reports his comrades begging their officers to forgive them for getting wounded, dying with a shout of "May our Emperor live a thousand years!" They may do these things better in Moscow and Berlin, but Japan is catching up with the West...