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Secretary Ickes has pacified Governor Murray by assuring him that the National Recovery Administration does not really intend to dispossess the forty thousand Oklahomans on "uneconomic marginal lands." The Secretary only meant that it might be a good thing if "uneconomic" agricultural pursuits were discontinued, as indeed it would. But...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 10/31/1933 | See Source »

Up to late last week News stockholders had not officially approved the deal and News employes were fighting it desperately. They circulated a handbill headlined "Only One Newspaper in St. Paul?'' and protested to St. Paul NRA officials that if the News were killed, 1,000 em- ployes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Minesota Monopoly | 9/11/1933 | See Source »

Chairman Morgan's assigned objectives are as follows: 1) flood control works along the Tennessee River to even up its flow between a March torrent and an October trickle; 2) a 9-ft. channel for navigation from Knoxville to Paducah (650 mi.); 3) reforestation of marginal lands to prevent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSERVATION: Valley of Vision | 5/29/1933 | See Source »

¶Last week President Roosevelt laid before Congress his Tennessee River-Muscle Shoals project as his first great piece of national planning. He called for a Tennessee Valley Authority-"a corporation clothed with the power of Government but possessed of the flexibility and initiative of a private enterprise . . . charged with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Control of Congress | 4/17/1933 | See Source »

For ages philosophers have racked their brains over a riddle they call "appearance-&-reality." No answer to it has yet been found. Philosopher-Poet-Playwright Pirandello, who likes to speculate on marginal ideas, takes a flutter on this one in One, None and a Hundred Thousand. Author Pirandello makes his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Query | 4/3/1933 | See Source »

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