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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...come up here and ask for more and more money. Where does it come from? It comes from the pockets of your own people. We are signing the names of your children, and of children yet unborn, to pay off that 40 billion dollar debt. . . . You people out there look to Washington, but I look to the people. If the time ever comes when the American people are no longer able to operate their democratic system of government, that government will have to find a Hitler or a Mussolini to do its business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Back Talk | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...money from you and even you don't get it all back. All you need to do is look at these big buildings on Pennsylvania Avenue to realize that. We take your shirt and give you a little piece of the shirttail. Then you go back home waving it and shouting 'Look what Uncle Sam gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Back Talk | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...make it more instead of less inflexible, arch-isolationist Senator Borah demanded: "Haven't the people [of the U. S.] already made up their minds who is right and who is wrong? The world is already at war. Already things have taken place which make other nations look on us as un-neutral. Do you think we can write permanent legislation at this time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Reason & Emotion | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

Turkey, unlike Bulgaria and Hungary, had its fill of German alliances in the World War and wants no more of them. Although trading heavily with Nazi Germany, the Turks now look favorably on the British-French antiaggression "Peace Front." Last week, in the face of this development, Adolf Hitler decided it was high time to send to Turkey a man skilled in dealing with just such a situation. He picked for the job of Reich Ambassador to Ankara Franz von Papen, a diplomatic smoothie, an international intriguer whom British Foreign Office wits call the "German specialist for political dirty work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Iscariot to Ankara | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...coming weeks look very strong from the swing angle with Chick Webb now in residence at the Southland, Earl Hines due in there soon, Charley Barnet at the Raymor, various name bands in and out of Totem Pole and the Roseland State, and the Freshman Smoker's terrific array of talent Monday night...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 4/28/1939 | See Source »

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