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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...easy to send a crew of unemployed huskies down into a ditch. More puzzling problems to Harry Hopkins and his Works Progress Administration are unemployed bookkeepers, engineers, accountants. Last week from Washington came word of a unique white-collar project in Philadelphia, which Mr. Hopkins described as of literally unestimable value to the world's aerial and ocean navigators. The project: a complete set of Tables of Computed Altitude and Azimuth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Azimuth Project | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

Ricker), with whom he was arrested in bed last year in Philadelphia. Justice Pecora sharply ordered an end to Davis' visits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Political Juice | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

...Philadelphia, a young woman carrying a babe in arms handed a grubby $1 bill to Chief Investigator George Dooley of the Registration Commission, announced: "I took a dollar from a man to change my registration to Republican. It's dirty money. I can't keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ears Back | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

Contemporary and friend of William Merritt Chase (see p. 19), and a teacher of repute, Tarbell had the unusual distinction of being a juror of award at three international expositions: St. Louis in 1904, San Francisco in 1915, Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 15, 1938 | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

Leaving Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia) with his mother, father and nurse, Franklin Delano Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 15, 1938 | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

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