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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...directors of TVA carried their family squabble into his White House office (see p. 14), 2) the nation's deepening Recession was abetted by the shocking business failure of an old Grottie, and 3) Adolf Hitler threw Europe into a panic for the second time in a month, was the annual White House Correspondents' dinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: High Jinks | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

When Congress passed the second Agricultural Adjustment Act last month, most complex of its many complexities appeared to be the means whereby marketing quotas were to be established by a nation-wide vote of farmers. Last week, first two referendums held under the new bill indicated that at least this part of its machinery was in good working order. Farmers in 20 States went to filling stations, schools, grange halls to cast ballots on whether or not the Department of Agriculture should impose quotas on 1938 crops of cotton and tobacco. Counted by AAA County Committees and forwarded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: First Quotas | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...cars, had the band play Me and My Shadow while they paraded through the streets trailed by the humiliated detectives. Last autumn the tide turned. About the time Mr. McGee was being literally thrown out of his union job, Cleveland's Safety Director Eliot Ness, after a four-month investigation, got the cronies indicted on a charge of extorting $1,200 from a Cleveland restaurant owner by holding up the installation of plate-glass windows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OHIO: Without a Song | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

Three columns under Rightist Generalissimo Franco last week staged in central Aragón the widest offensive of Spain's 20-month-old war. During the first six days the Franco forces, behind the largest aerial concentration the war has seen, advanced along a 60-mile front, extending from Fuentes del Ebro southward to Montalban, recaptured Belchite and gained approximately 1,350 square miles of Leftist territory. Some 3,500 prisoners were taken, the Rightists announced, including 400 U. S. citizens of the Leftist Abraham Lincoln Battalion. At week's end one Rightist column was only about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: 1, 350 Sq. Mi. | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...formal meeting, probably next month, the new men will be inducted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: P.B.K. MEN CHOOSE JUNIOR EIGHT FOR ACADEMIC HONORS | 3/18/1938 | See Source »

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