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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Federal executions shall be moved only out of States which have entirely abolished capital punishment. Michigan law does demand death for "high treason." The Chebatoris hanging could not be moved unless the trial judge knew of a way. Federal Judge Arthur J. Tuttle of Detroit replied: "I have neither the power nor the inclination. ... I think it would be unfair to suggest that people of neighboring States are less humane than are the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHIGAN: Tradition Blotted | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

While both societies have decided Fascist or Nazi complexions, neither plugs Party propaganda unduly. Periodically both think of themselves as part of a world-wide working people's organization for better-spent leisure. At Berlin is located an International Central Office for Work and Joy, presided over by Dr. Robert Ley, the German Labor Front-Leader. This bureau grew out of two World Congresses for Recreation, the first in Los Angeles in 1932, the second in Hamburg in 1936. The third-with the name now changed by Dr. Ley to the World Congress for Work and Joy-was held...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Joy Meet | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

...trouble with "gentlemen's agreements" to stabilize prices, according to the industrial engineering firm of Ford, Bacon & Davis, is that 60% of the agreers are gentlemen, 30% just act like gentlemen and 10% neither are nor act like gentlemen. Result in the early years of the steel industry was that every price pool ended in price chaos. Then along came a gentleman who also carried a big stick-stern Judge Gary of U. S. Steel Corp. Since Big Steel at the turn of the Century had 65% of the total ingot-steel capacity, Judge Gary could easily knock into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Pittsburgh Minus | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

Franklin Roosevelt's first job was as clerk in the Wall St. law offices of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn, but that firm is prouder of the fact that in its 55 years as counsel to the New York Stock Exchange, it never lost a case. Neither fact, however, moved the Stock Exchange's Acting President William McChesney Martin Jr. and the "Reform" party. Their new brooms are sweeping out the "Old Guards" of ex-President Charles R. Gay who were uncompromising toward SEC. Roland Redmond, senior Carter, Ledyard partner, was a great & good friend of Richard Whitney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Complete Sweep | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

...sister Pipaluk, now 19, adapt himself to life in Denmark. When, on one of his visits to Enehoje, Mequsaq set fire to the estate just to see it burn, Freuchen decided to send him to Greenland for good. But although Mequsaq could not learn white men's ways, neither could he learn to be happy away from his father, who knew, each time they parted, that Mequsaq, for all his poker-faced Eskimo reticence, suffered the special heartbreak of an orphan and an exile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Big Dane Tamed | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

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