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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week U. S. District Attorney William J. Campbell in Chicago "respectfully requested" Western Union, A. T. & T. and the telephone company's Illinois subsidiary to disconnect Nationwide's number. Unless they obeyed, they might be indicted as accessories in an illegal enterprise. Although Mr. Campbell has yet to convict indicted Publisher Annenberg of evading income taxes, illegal trafficking with gamblers, etc., the wire companies agreed to hang up on Annenberg services throughout the U. S. At that point a Federal judge persuaded Attorney Campbell to let the network stay in operation three more days while he heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Disconnected? | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...should permit a volunteer army to be raised here to fight on the side of the Allies," he said. "Our navy should be used to convoy every available American merchant vessel in order to carry food to France and England. Moreover, we should produce a large number of planes and train a huge corps of pilots in case Russia and Italy join Germany...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mumford Urges U.S. Help in War Against Fascism | 11/10/1939 | See Source »

Representing the Psychological Corporation and directing all its polling activities around Boston is A. A. Roback, Ph.D. '17, internationally renowned writer, columnist, and lecturer on psychology. Roback, who lives at 8 Prescott Street, has been giving a number of courses for the University's Extension Service...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nine Men Work in Nationwide Poll | 11/10/1939 | See Source »

Frannie Lee displaced Joe Gardella at wingback in signal drill. Joe has been bothered by a number of bruises sustained in the Princeton game which have slowed him up considerably. Since Harlow wants to have his plays run at top speed during signals, he is giving Lee the call for the sessions. This does not mean, however, that Lee will rate the whistle over Joe on Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TORBIE MACDONALD OUT FOR ARMY GAME | 11/9/1939 | See Source »

...seven questions on the poll, only the first two give opportunity for an unprejudiced answer. All the rest are so worded that the voter has little or no choice. Number Three bluntly states that if we refuse to reply "Yes" on curbing war profits, we will automatically be "drawn into war by the pressure of munitions makers and war profiteers." The same glib technique is used in Number Five. With the assurance of a seer, the H.S.U. charges that unless we nod our heads to legislation for protection of "civil liberties, labor and social security standards," the War Crisis will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEVEN COME ELEVEN | 11/8/1939 | See Source »

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