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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In the magnificent $17,500,000 coliseum built to house the Department which was Herbert Hoover's monument and his stepping stone to the Presidency, Uncle Dan Roper of Marlboro County, S. C. seemed like a very small potato indeed in a very big box. His training for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Second Stocking | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

As a compromise Mergenthaler's President Joseph T. Mackey proposed to put 10% (about $200,000) of his annual wage bill in escrow, the sum to revert to the company if it lost money next year, to go to the workers if a profit was earned. When young Mr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Nut in Escrow | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

Russia's Battle? Not long ago a delegation from bleak and once-unfriendly Tibet* tramped to the Chinese military headquarters in Szechwan Province, there presented the Generalissimo with 10,000 sheepskins contributed by Tibetan monks, officials and peasants as "an expression of unity against the Japanese invasion." Through the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Westward Ho! | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

Since most radio programs use prepared scripts, radio performers need nothing so much as the ability to read aloud. But programs like General Foods Corp.'s We, the People, in which the audience participates, run into special script troubles: the program's cross section includes people with poor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Readers | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

For other guests jumbo type has been used, and for presbyopic Impresario Daniel Frohman the script was hand-printed, in letters several inches tall. More difficult was color-blind Manhattanite Robert Reuschle, who wanted his lines typed in "red," the color he could see best. (The script had to be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Readers | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

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