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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mass festivities in the town itself (normal pop. 450,000). As a result, in the past five years a titanic Parteitag Geldnde, or party grounds, has been in the process of construction, in what used to be Nürnberg's Luitpold Park (see map). The area is larger than that of the old walled town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Centre Of The World! | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

...neither note did Mr. Hull mention President Cardenas' far larger expropriations of foreign-owned oil properties. These seizures, resulting in grave loss of markets and taxes, have undermined Mexico's national currency to a cracking point (TIME, Aug. 29). The Hull-Welles stratagem of confining their claims to "small" U. S. interests was adopted partly to avoid charges of Imperialism, also partly to give Señior Cardenas a graceful out. But Mexico's President has no easy out. In Mexico's economic crisis he needs U. S: comfort and support. He also needs the powerful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Bald, Unadulterated | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

...prospective problem of assigning ultra-high-frequency wave lengths when each television station needs a slice of the radio spectrum six times as big as the total band of kilocycles now occupied by all U.S. broadcasting stations. This idea of an ultra-high-frequency transmitter which needs an even larger slice of the radio spectrum should make FCCommissioners scream for aspirin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Wave Focus | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

...Tired Business Men who twirled their radio dials one night last week picked up the voice of Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold as he pleaded for a larger trust-busting corps-one comparable with SEC's 1,200 or Civil Aeronautics Authority's 2,800. He now has a staff of 65. Said he: "You can't police a country as large as America with a corporal's guard." Meanwhile, as such outbursts spurred vacationless lawyers ransacking files for anything that the Congressional Monopoly Investigation committee might conceivably regard as incriminating evidence, the dogged Federal Trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Routine Vigilance | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

...found the undistributed surplus tax defective because "though it retarded growth of existing large corporations, [it] gave them a perpetual franchise, not only to stay large, but to be the only large corporations in existence. No small business could grow up to a point where it could give its larger competitors any real battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Memo from Mr. Berle | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

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