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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harry Hopkins, the social uplift zealot, remains today No. 1 Janizary but his position as head of WPA ties him down a bit. Jim Farley, converted last fortnight to the Purge-wherever it has a chance of working-remains Janizary No. 2 ex-officio, but his duties as Democratic National...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Janizariat | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

Despite the fact that the plan would tax Californians at least $1,315,766,400 in real U. S. money each year ($625 each from all working Californians*.), "$30 Every Thursday'' was no daydream politically. Close to 800,000 signatures were obtained for petitions to put it on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: Funny Money Man | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

"Straw Man." Viscount Runciman's entourage began complaining fortnight ago that they have found Konrad Henlein nothing but a "straw man," and last week the Sudeten Führer went to Berchtesgaden only to take the orders of his boss, Führer Hitler-for the fourth time this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Plan No. 3 | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

Few days later, Henry Wallace set out for Ste. Anne-de-Bellevue, Que., supposedly to detail a highly publicized wheat subsidy plan before an international agriculture conference. But the economists heard nothing the London Wheat Conference had not heard six weeks before: 1) to keep its "fair" share of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Compelling Circumstances | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

Of chief interest in Biographer Pearson's own life is the period he spent as an officer in Persia during the War; he outstared and outran the natives, boasts of making tough army men eat out of his hand. Of main interest to the reader are his anecdotes of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Flattering Autobiography | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

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