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But the free-speech issue is child's play compared to the brass-tack problem of carrying New Jersey for the New Deal, and last week Franklin Roosevelt sent his No. 3 Cabinet officer, Secretary of War Harry Woodring, to Hudson County to do business with Boss Hague. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New Jersey Deal | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

In London, a brilliant young U. S. scientist is searching for a vanished physicist, his former professor. But when he locates him, the professor denies his identity, frames his onetime protege to get him out of the way. Chief of the shady facts about the professor is that his real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Desert Whopper | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

Mournfully replied Minister of Agriculture William Shepherd Morrison, a protege of Earl Baldwin: "The Ottawa Empire agreements do not permit such a course. The situation may greatly improve if there is rain in the next two weeks." All churches in the diocese of Bristol were ordered to offer prayers for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: May 23, 1938 | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

Last year Stagehand finished his two-year-old season a maiden (a horse that has never won a race). But this winter, in the theatrical setting at Santa Anita, Stagehand blossomed into a star, won three races in a row. Racing fans all knew that the incomparable Earl Sande, most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stagehand | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

¶At a dinner of the Young Democratic Club of New York, where rumor says he has aims at being Governor, Franklin Roosevelt's trust-busting protege, Solicitor General-designee Robert Houghwout Jackson, spoke to Business in more conciliatory terms than usual: "The business man is not easily interested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Government's Week: Mar. 7, 1938 | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

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