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...defended the "idiotic idea that it was the duty of government to find its citizens work." "Under modern conditions of depressed purchasing power, this assertion of the right to work, the right to a job, is not visionary social idealism - it is simple economic realism, for it is the quickest and cheapest way to attain full economic recovery. . . . Our purpose is putting these people to work not to compete with private industry or to build up a rival economic system outside the limits of private enterprise. Our purpose is to provide that stimulation to private production which will bring into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Key People | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

...runtiest stunt cinema has ever attempted, Producer Jed Buell (Harlem on the Prairie, TIME, Dec. 13) was last week collecting in Hollywood 200 midgets. Their assignment: an all-midget, musical Western, The Terror of Tiny Town. Quickest to follow Producer Buell's knee-high lead was Dr. Eugene Frenke, producer husband of Actress Anna Sten. His pint-sized project: Half-Buck Rides Again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cineminiatures | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

Life insurance executives have not had an easy time finding profitable places to invest their policyholders' money. But real estate is traditionally such a bad investment for life insurance companies- because when cash is needed quickest is just the time real estate is least convertible-that most States have passed laws against it. The 1906 New York Insurance code forbade insurance companies to own any land or buildings that they did not do business in or that they had not acquired through mortgage foreclosures-and these they had to get rid of again within five years. Most other States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: $35,000,000 in The Bronx | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

...Yezhov, who is the second most powerful man in the Soviet Union as head of the Secret Political Police, won his power by persuading Stalin that the Dictator's life was being menaced by Russia's former Secret Police Chief Yagoda, recently executed (TIME, March 28). The quickest, most dangerous way to climb in Russia is by persuading the Dictator that a new set of his most trusted henchmen have just turned against him, and recently there have been signs that ambitious Soviet Vice Premier Kosior was busy along this same line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Heroes & Kosior | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...stated, Fred Ulen has the quickest reaction with .26. Ulen also is the fastest between light numbers one and two (13 feet) with .74 of a second. Six men are tied for the fifteen feet between lights two and three, doing it in .67 of a second. Al Hanlon and Charles Smith '40 hold the best time for the next 15 feet--.57 of a second...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Track Coach Employs "Electric Eye" to Translate Sprinters Onto Paper; Able to Check on Runner's Speed Acceleration | 11/2/1937 | See Source »

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