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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make the statement that "seven jurors favored setting the will aside. Five opposed." This is not true. The first ballot was nine to three in favor of setting the will aside, and it was never less than this majority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...less than 50 miles from the border, the greatest iron deposit on the American continent, our ore running 60 to 68%, with millions of tons which can be picked up by steam shovel. This is not far from Presidio on the Texas border line. Our engineers predict that at some future time in world history, the western hemisphere will get all its ore from this section...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...children of Theodore Roosevelt. They crawled through the space between ceiling and floors, dragged their spotted pony into the elevator, whooped on roller skates down the historic hallways, walked on stilts up the circling stairways, with Father egging them on, often whooping it up ahead of them. Less like his father than the other children, but his father's favorite, Kermit followed in Father's boisterous wake, but liked to take books out of the Library of Congress and read while Archie and Ted played, argued with the whole White House staff. Father interrupted his studies at Harvard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Father's Son | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

With Christmas less than three weeks away, three prominent charitable organizations are conducting their annual drives at Harvard. These groups are the Red Cross, the Salvation Army, and the Cambridge Tuberculosis and Health Association...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red Cross, Tuberculosis Seals, Salvation Army Figure in Charity Drive | 12/2/1939 | See Source »

...statement emphasizes the fact that their views are not taken to further the best interests of the U.S., but to champion the cause of Russia. While there is no legitimate reason for suppressing such views, there is no denying that, emotionally, they invite suppression, and for this reason make less healthy the political climate of the U.S., and may actually endanger our neutrality. By holding stubbornly to a Russia that has lost the respect of the world, the YCL may find that it has surrendered the priceless gift of peace for America...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEEING RED | 12/2/1939 | See Source »

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