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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the fabulous projects instigated by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, none has been more controversial than the $7,000,000 system of elevators and staircases installed at 170-foot Bonneville Dam for the convenience of fish. Object of the system is to enable Columbia River salmon to pursue their four-year life cycle: hatch in gravel beds in the river's upper tributaries, grow several inches, drift down to the ocean tailfirst, get to weigh anywhere from 10-to 60 lb., swim back up the Columbia River to spawn and die exactly where they started. The system, consists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER: Civilized Salmon | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...published constitution. Both were drafted by the National (formerly Central) Committee and the Polbureau, were then O.K.'d by State conventions. Chief object of both documents is to put down in black and white the Reds' assurance that they mean well by all good Democrats, harm to none. Constitutional excerpts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Rain Check on Revolution | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...State's Senatorial primary next August against old, unreconstructed Senator Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith. Trumpeted Governor Johnston: "During my administration as Governor of South Carolina I have backed the reforms and policies of President Roosevelt 100%. In South Carolina . . . the policies of the New Deal . . . have lost none of their popularity. My campaign for the Senate will be based on a record of constant, unshakable loyalty to the Democratic platform and the head of our party, President Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Spring Gardening | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...marks almost entirely through star acting: Susan and God because of Gertrude Lawrence, Whiteoaks because of Ethel Barrymore, Once Is Enough because of Ina Claire. Further, it was a season in which, from start to finish, the critics acted as pacesetters: No-play they panned became a hit, and none they cheered turned out a flop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Exit Smiling | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

There are many kinds of school spirit. Some people wear huge W's on their watch fobs" some go to all the football games, and even contribute a fullback or two; many more content themselves with getting drunk when the occasion demands. Mr. Pereles did none of these things...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCHOOL SPIRIT: GRADE A | 5/24/1938 | See Source »

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