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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...genuine pacifists left in the U. S. is Senator Lynn Joseph Frazier of Hoople, N. Dak. As usual when Congress opened, Senator Frazier offered an amendment to the Constitution, declaring...
John Wesley Hanes, 46, is a well-dressed, fun-loving North Carolina squire. The Haneses of Winston-Salem, N. C. are many and substantial. John Wesley is one who, after Yale (1915), made really good in Wall Street as a leading partner of C. D. Barney & Co. He cashed in on marketing Winston-Salem's R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camel) stock. Relatively, he survived the 1929 crash better than most Wall Streeters. He kept in touch with North Carolina politics and his old friend Democrat Max Gardner (Governor...
...said Adolf Hitler at Nürnberg in 1936. Last week Führer Hitler, after a year of magnificent triumphs, could still not see any likelihood of getting his hands on the faraway Urals. If there was any grabbing to be done in Siberia, Japan rather than Germany would do it. But the Ukraine was different. There the signs were getting plainer and plainer that Führer Hitler thought the time was approaching when the Ukraine-which includes parts of Poland and Rumania as well as of Soviet Russia-would be ripe for Nazi plucking...
Pompous Frank Gannett of Rochester, N. Y. publishes a string of dull and respectable newspapers. New Dealer Harold L. Ickes throws the most accomplished tantrums in Washington. Famed Biologist Raymond Pearl of Johns Hopkins, who likes to drink good beer and play the French horn, makes his views more articulate than most scientists. Last week these three had their say on the question "Do We Have A Free Press...
With the possible exception of J. P. Morgan, the name George Fisher Baker is the most illustrious in U. S. banking. Side-whiskered George Fisher Baker descended from Troy, N. Y., in 1863 helped found Manhattan's great First National Bank. His son followed him at its helm...