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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...found in haphazard experimentation.* ... It does not follow . . . that we must turn to a State controlled or State-directed system to cure our troubles. That is not liberalism; that is tyranny. . . . Ofttimes the tendency of democracy in the presence of national danger is to strike blindly, to listen to demagogs and to slogans. . . . We have refused to be stampeded into such courses. . . . Relief Record. "We prevented the wholesale failure of banks, insurance companies, building & loan associations, railroads. This was not done to save a few stockholders (Artificial applause) but to save 25 millions of American families, every one of whose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Undefeated and Unafraid | 8/22/1932 | See Source »

...shoot Paul Doumer!" cried the prisoner (who in French courts may interrupt at any time). "I shot the President of the Republic of France! France listen to me! . . . When I came to France I saw people living in security and plenty and I thought of millions of Russian peasants groveling out their lives in starvation and misery. . . . My crime is a protest in the name of the enslaved Russian people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Glad Madman | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

...magazines, but I have yet to find a magazine that gives the news of the world in such concise form. Broadcasting companies are not philanthropists, and the fact that the C. B. C. decided to use the program as a sustaining feature speaks for itself. The stations must have listen ers - this is their stock in trade - and to have listeners they must give worthwhile sustaining programs. We eagerly wait for Friday night, Sept. 9, at 8:30 o'clock. MIRIAM DARB...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 18, 1932 | 7/18/1932 | See Source »

...drum and two bugles furnished all the music. General Glassford on a motorcycle circulated among the marchers, took the friendly salutes of leaders. Parades, he reasoned, do no harm, use up animal spirits. At the Capitol ranks were broken and the Veterans sprawled about to listen to political speeches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Break Up? | 7/18/1932 | See Source »

...attack his dictatorship. A thousand conservative Veterans began closing in on the noisy little Red. Suddenly out of nowhere appeared General Glassford. "Pace has just as much right to speak here as anyone," he shouted. "Any of you who disagree with him and don't want to listen, go to some other part of the camp and play baseball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Break Up? | 7/18/1932 | See Source »

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