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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leader whose match less courage and faith in the people of our land has given the world an example of pure devotion to public duty and genius in statesmanship that will cause to stand out in the annals of humanity the name of Franklin D. Roosevelt!" Less quick-witted than usual, Boss Farley called for a vote on the resolution. To the mortification of all present, instead of making the resolution unanimous and unfaltering, disloyal Gene Talmadge removed the cigar from his mouth, snarled a bitter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Poker Players | 1/20/1936 | See Source »

Officials at the university will not be too quick to outline the courses and procedure for the course. President James B. Conant has named a commission which will make a study of several similar schools and make recommendations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 1/20/1936 | See Source »

Others were quick to point out that the Realmleader is a newspaper owner and, as such, needs advertising revenue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Advertising Out | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

Leaving the White House four days before his 78th birthday, Virginia's Senator Carter Glass spied slim, boyish-looking Associated Pressman Francis Marion Stephenson reaching toward a snowpile. As quick of arm as of wit, Senator Glass picked a chunk of icy snow off the running board of his car, heaved it accurately at "Little Stevie," jumped in the car. Chortled he: "I landed a good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 13, 1936 | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

...Great Powers to do anything about the unspeakable abuses he has encountered in Germany, U. S. Citizen McDonald cataloged them in Sears Roebuck fashion and resigned. Excoriating the German Government of today for ''crushing" not only Jews but also Protestants, Catholics and whomever else is not quick to toe the Hitler-Goring-Goeb- bels-Streicher-Rosenberg line, Mr. Mc-Donald bitterly concludes that in Germany what now passes for "law" is merely the "whim" of German bigwigs defying world public opinion beneath the swastika...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: Friendly but Firm | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

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