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Last week Chief Arthur Mahraun of the Young German Order started a movement to get a national plebiscite to re-elect President von Hindenburg. Adolf Hitler wrote Chancellor Bruning a belated letter flatly refusing to help prolong the President's term by Reichstag action, whereupon the Government set Feb. 28 as election day. On the subject of election candidates Herr Hitler was glumly silent. Silent', too, was Oberst Epp. With so much almost within his grasp he did not want to overstep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Hep! Hep! Oberst Epp! | 1/25/1932 | See Source »

Tariff. "I am opposed to any general congressional revision. Such action would prolong the Depression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: State of the Union | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

Last week a Chicago reporter of the United Press discovered a Mrs. Andrew Nelson, wife of a workless carpenter and mother of six, dying of dread Addison's disease. Her physician, Dr. Richard Torpin, remarked that extract of adrenal cortex might prolong her life. But the extract was scarce, impossible to get. A small news item resulted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Press Rescue | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

...swung to the carriers' support, contended that a rate increase would turn the economic trend.. And to the I. C. C. from the North Dakota Board of Railroad Commissioners came the first formal protest against the carriers' proposal on the theory that its authorization "would greatly prolong" the Depression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Rate Upping | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

...needs? . . . Is it necessary for you to be gainfully employed? If not, perhaps the greatest service that you can render to the community and to the nation at this time, when countless thousands are out of work, is to have the courage to refuse work for gain, and to prolong your period of study with a view to better equipping yourself in a richer way for future work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Jobs | 6/15/1931 | See Source »

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