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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exact position unknown to the entire world, he played defending the Western Hemisphere with the bulk of the U. S. Navy. Submitting himself to strict wartime naval censorship, Commander-in-Chief Roosevelt dropped out of sight with Admiral Leahy on the cruiser Houston after steaming in for a close look at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, receiving Governor Lawrence Cramer of the Virgin Islands on board in St. Thomas Harbor, and paying a courtesy call on the Dutch island of St. Eustatius ("Statia"). The President let it be known that he was following every minutest move of the opposing forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Sport of Presidents | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...first attack upon that fact was equally direct: "Is it not ... better to have a program of reform substantially completed than to have to look forward to important changes not begun? With the emphasis shifted from reform to recovery, this Administration is now determined to promote that recovery with all the vigor and power at its command...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Restoration in Iowa | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...team is practicing in Briggs Cage, but they will begin outdoor practice as soon as the weather permits. Right now it is difficult to estimate the team's strength on the basis of its indoor activity, however with a defense which is big, fast, and experienced, the prospects look fairly good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LACROSSE TEAM STRONG; PLANS HEAVY SCHEDULE | 2/28/1939 | See Source »

Convinced that modern girls are tidy bodies who wash out their stockings every night if possible, detectives of New York City's Missing Persons Bureau always take a second look when they pass a girl with soiled and sagging hose. The odds are that she is a runaway, homeless in the big city. Last year the Missing Persons Bureau, which does the biggest job of its sort, located all but 25 of the 2,059 local missing girls reported to it. Most of them turned up at employment and charity agencies, but an appreciable few went home in response...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Why Girls Leave Home | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...subject of her first book as a picket line is from a pulpit. The Wedding is an interesting novel in its own right. But it is more interesting as an indication of how the proletarian novelists are developing, of what they find when they leave the union halls and look at things on the other side of the tracks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bride's Strike | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

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