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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...distressing to a proud pedestrian to find TIME on p. 2, Oct. 9 issue, including Daniel Morgan in its list of "Brainy Cavalrymen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 16, 1939 | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...ticking efficiency of a time-clock, knows the U. S. as only an engineer can. He has performed special functions in PWA, Resettlement, Farm Security, supervised the attempt to harness the Bay of Fundy's tides at Passamaquoddy. First problem Andrews' successor must face: enforcement of the Oct. 24 minimum wage boost to 30? (from 25?) per hour; the maximum workweek reduction from 44 hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Trees | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

President Roosevelt proclaimed last week that on Oct. 11 the nation would honor Count Casimir Pulaski.* Thus he reminded the world of U. S. sympathy for Poland, turned U. S. eyes towards the 4,000,000 Polish-Americans settled throughout the land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Poland Is Not Yet Lost | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Nationwide rallies and memorial services would signalize their Week, beginning Oct. 11, climaxed at week's end by parades. In Poland, no Polish flag yet waves, but in the U. S. the mourners of a dead nation this week marched to their colors, sang with hope their anthem, Poland Is Not Yet Lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Poland Is Not Yet Lost | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...arms embargo, the rest of the show was anticlimactic. Two days later bulbous Tom Connally of Texas, his wavy grey locks disheveled, roared for repeal for two hours and 45 minutes. For two hours and three minutes Michigan's Vandenberg played hard for his stake in 1940 (TIME, Oct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Question Marks | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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