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In appearance he is heavyset, heavy-jowled, almost bald. He lumbers when he walks. His dress is plain, neat. No orator, he speaks cautiously and without humor. His political motto: "Don't rock the boat." Out of Congress: He lives frugally at the Woodley Apartments in Washington, avoids society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 27, 1930 | 10/27/1930 | See Source »

First indication that the Convention was sure to take a favorable stand on branchbanking came with the report of Rudolf S. Hecht, a first citizen of New Orleans, famed as President of HiberniaBank & Trust Co. and nationally famed as chair-man of A. B. A.'s economic policy committee. In...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bank Convention | 10/13/1930 | See Source »

The scene was Buffalo, where he was born 52 years ago. Father Fosdick was a teacher destined to receive much local kudos as long-time high school principal and later Superintendent of Education. Son Harry was the best pupil in town. He won countless prizes, especially for oratory. Once he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Riverside Church | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

That first winter was a hard one: no income and no job. But he haunted the public library, and stood in the gallery to hear Edwin Booth play Shakespeare. "Outwardly seedy, hungry, pale and lonely, I inhabited palaces and spoke with kings." When his money was just about gone he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fusilier* | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

Once an iron moulder, later a Nonconformist Wesleyan lay preacher, today Foreign Secretary of Great Britain, plodding "Uncle Arthur" Henderson has played until last week something less than second fiddle to Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald in shaping the Empire's foreign policy. Dramatic therefore was his sprout. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: I Shall not admit . . . War | 9/22/1930 | See Source »

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