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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public was James Lee, a son of the late, famed Press Agent Ivy Lee (whom Laborites still remember as "Poison Ivy"). To the press and to dealers facing a shortage of cars at the start of their new season, Chrysler's President K. T. Keller sent a letter: "We are getting practically no production from any of our Detroit plants. . . . You cannot run a business on a sound basis and produce quality automobiles if men . . . take into their own hands the running of the plants." To bulbous, loud Richard Frankensteen of C. I. O.'s United Automobile Workers...
...Britain's individualistic literati carried on a violent, open discussion in the newspapers on peace v. war. Most outspoken and extreme was incorrigible Playwright George Bernard Shaw, who wrote an unsolicited (and unpaid for) letter to the Manchester Guardian which plugged this way for peace...
...Robin Lampson, author of the recently published life of General William Gorgas entitled Death Loses a Pair of Wings, describes in a recent issue of the California Monthly (alumni magazine) his phenomenal good fortune in receiving 528 responses to a letter published in TIME, in which he requested readers who had information on General Gorgas to communicate with...
...neutral onlookers -particularly in the U. S. For the perplexed U. S. people strongly desire to know exactly what kind of world it is that the Governments of Great Britain and France are fighting to protect or gain. Nowhere was this U. S. perplexity better expressed than in a letter to that font of British Governmental information, the London Times, from one who has lectured, instructed, amused and scared Americans by the thousand...
...began to exert political pressure on Washington to halve the 4? a pound copper tariff, in order to unfix the copper market by bringing 6 to 8? Chilean and Canadian Copper in. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his eye on scrap and steel as much as on copper, addressed another letter to Wyoming's Senator Joseph ("Dear Joe") O'Mahoney, charged his Temporary National Economic Committee to guard against price profiteering. This time the President meant business...