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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the Alumni are not expected to furnish much opposition, George C. Scott '34, should tax Ulen's print men to the limit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY MERMEN FACE ALUMNI IN FIRST MEET | 12/14/1935 | See Source »

Newshawks interviewing big Manhattan bankers could find not one who would admit naming a safe debt limit to the President, not one who had heard another banker do so, not one who would suggest any banker except Marriner S. Eccles, New Deal Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, likely to have named such figures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Billions & Bankers | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

...nice quiet conference by a few naval experts with the hope that these specialists in the business of killing each other at sea could work out some sort of gentlemen's agreement in restraint of their trade. The British thought that something might be done: 1) to limit the size and armament, but not the number, of various classes of naval vessels, 2) to have each nation privately inform the others of the tonnage it intends to build so that no one need overbuild out of fear of being caught napping in the naval race. Exit Bigwigs? Though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Professionals to London | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

...troublesome top men of other nations can be persuaded to go home and leave the Conference in peace. But Undersecretary of State William Phillips was also the most significant member of the delegation because his presence in London is tacit recognition of U. S. fear that this conference to limit armaments may turn into a conference for enlarging animosities. Ten years ago an interviewer asked a question to which William Phillips made the perfect diplomatic answer: "There are jarring notes only when there are jarring personalities." Rarely before has U. S. diplomacy had a less jarring personality than the present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Professionals to London | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

...York City examiners put her on the scales, shook their heads when the needle clocked 182. Refusing her a permanent job, they made her a substitute biology teacher, told her to train down to 150. For six months she rode horseback, hiked ten miles a day. dieted to the limit, became so weak that she ''could hardly pick up a thread.'' Then the examiners asked for her weight, still shook their heads when she said 160. Thoroughly demoralized, she stopped dieting, promptly swelled to 181. Last summer, not an ounce lighter in spite of four fretful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Big & Strong | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

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