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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Readers Wheeler and Curtis pay attention. Of course TIME is not printing the news "before it happens'' but it is getting the news to its readers one day sooner. It necessarily takes time to print 700,000 and more copies of a magazine. By still going to press the same day it always has but speeding up its printing schedule, TIME now gets to its readers (local post-masters permitting) on Thursdays instead of Fridays...
Looking forward to his legislative program for the next Congress President Roosevelt last week also turned his thoughts to Housing. He told his press conference† that four phases of his broad Housing program were now functioning effectively: Home Owners' Loan Corp., to save small mortgaged properties for their owners; Slum Clearance, which has been taken up by almost all large U. S. cities; USHA, which finances new tenements for people who can afford not more than $5 per room per month; Federal Housing Administration, which finances home owners who can afford $10 per room per month...
...voice in his audience asked the President if he was now describing the "Lambert Plan." No, said the President; the plan he was sketching would be worked out in final form shortly but had as yet no special name. Nevertheless, reporters knew that before the President's press conference a lean, iron-grey, mustachioed gentleman had attended an earlier session with the President, Secretary Morgenthau and Under-Secretary of the Treasury Hanes, Administrator Stewart McDonald and other officials of FHA. After the President's conference, so many reporters telephoned the iron-grey gentleman that his boss, Stewart McDonald...
Last week Speaker Dr. Sun Fo of the Chinese assembly broadcast from Chung-king a nationwide appeal: "All the Chinese people must work for closer cooperation with Russia." United Press reported neutral military attachés in China estimate that about 100 Soviet Red Army officers have now arrived to advise Generalissimo Chiang and his subordinate commanders. The original conquest of China by Chiang Kai-shek (TIME, Oct. 25, 1926) was accomplished with the technical assistance of Soviet General "Galen," later known as Marshal Vassily Bluecher and recently purged by Stalin. Hong Kong dispatches this week reported Chiang & Advisers about...
...first comment on the election which swept many New deal stalwarts into the discard and raised the Republican party to a place of power in both the House and Senate. Mr. Roosevelt said at his press conference, however, that he sees no threat to a continuation of liberal government nor does he envisage a coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats arising to circumvent...