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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because TIME'S cheapest advertising space (one column by 14 agate lines) costs $99.54-too steep a price for Reader Smyth-TIME herewith runs his ad for nothing. But let not other jobless readers presume that a once-broken rule will be broken again...
...Washington, William Thomas ("Tom") Marshall, 72, White House librarian since 1899, retired. To the press he described the reading habits of Presidents he had known: McKinley "let Mark Hanna do most of his reading"; Roosevelt I "read about everything worth while . . . history, economics and good fiction"; Taft "had the most legal mind I ever observed." "Some people say Wilson read himself to sleep with detective stories, but I never saw any in his rooms''; Harding read "anything that came along. The wilder and woollier it was, the better. . . ." Coolidge was "a heavy digger after facts"; Hoover favored technical...
...complete until Marshall Ford Dam is finished, 18 months hence. The present dams are not supposed to. control floods, but to produce power. Even so, the uppermost dam, Buchanan, would not have been too full to hold the flood but for inadequate river readings from upstream, which had let floodwaters catch the engineers napping. Dissatisfied flood victims, remembering that the Authority had taken credit for holding back a similar flood in 1935, got both PWAdministrator Ickes and the State Senate to start investigations...
...black and white, Catholic, Baptist or Episcopal, the New Deal has revived the Christian spirit of America. The man who today sits in the White House is a great Christian. He has chosen me as his first assistant. Now, are you going to let that man down? If there is a God in Heaven your vote will be no! . . . God bless each and every...
...Fined 17 of the 46 defendants found guilty of conspiracy to fix gasoline prices in the Madison oil trials last January. Federal Judge Patrick Stone fined twelve companies and five individuals an aggregate of $65,000, let ten individuals and one company go scot-free, offered a new trial for 15 individuals and three companies. Those fined immediately appealed...