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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Morgenthau's balding brow the cares of his office were writ large. Snappishly he told newsmen: "Every day we get that much closer to the limit, but . . . that's Congress' worry, not mine. I'm not worrying about it," said worried Mr. Morgenthau, "I'm only the paymaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Death and Taxes | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...unions: "It is not possible without injustice to deny or limit either to the producers or to the laboring and farming classes the free faculty of uniting in associations by means of which they may defend their proper rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Proud Vaunt | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...five in a room, but hope that will be altered as there is no room to move and until I went home and got a tin jug & basin for our room, 24 women had to wash at the kitchen sink, amongst the cooking & washing up! It really was the limit and I thought I should really have to chuck it. It wasn't so much the discomfort as the feeling one was a prisoner, but now we are getting 48 hours on duty and 24 hours off which has very much changed the situation. The bulk of the girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 13, 1939 | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Russians were told that Finnish Foreign Minister Eljas Erkko had made a speech at Helsinki in which he denounced "Russian imperialism" and cried, "There is a limit to everything. Finland cannot accept the proposals of the Soviet Union and will defend her territory and her inviolability and independence by all means!" Pravda headlined its story ERKKO INCITES TO WAR!, editorialized that this speech "cannot be understood except as an appeal for war against the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics." In Moscow only the diplomatic-journalistic colony was aware that Mr. Erkko never uttered the words quoted by Pravda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Bitter Pills | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Since previous concerts of the Stradivarius Quartet have been vastly overcrowded, it will be necessary to limit the attendance at the next concert, in Fogg Museum on Thursday, November...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stradivarius Concert | 11/9/1939 | See Source »

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