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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...orders were keeping U. S. factories humming, but when the Administration's disapproval of loans to belligerents threatened a crisis, Wilson listened to House, but did not call in Treasury experts to advise him. Wilson and Bryan, says Dr. Tansill, were gulled by Wall Street, approving measures that ran counter to their policy of neutrality in general, until the U. S. was bound to the Allied cause by the firmest of economic ties. Nevertheless, he clears Wall Street of the charge of dragging the U. S. into the War. The pressure of Wilson's intimate advisers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Aaron's Difficulties | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...that several of his colleagues would do likewise. At this point, it looked so much as though the Detroit priest, who last fortnight went on record as favoring authoritarian government in the U. S., had administered a ninth-inning defeat to Franklin Roosevelt that the New York World-Telegram ran a streamer headline: REORGANIZATION BILL SEEMS DOOMED...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Ninth-Inning Rally | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...once be right. Bookies, like frightened stockbrokers, forced odds down to 8-to-1 to save their skins. Among knowing racegoers, however, the most likely winners were considered to be Royal Mail, winner last year; Delachance, the likeliest American-owned starter; and Cooleen, hope of Irishmen because she ran second last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: 11-Year-Old Stallion | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...well in the framework of any Christian church-not excluding the Roman Catholic. Sympathetic accounts of the Group's work have appeared in the Catholic Times in England, the Catholic World in the U. S. L'Osser- vatore Romano, semi-official newsorgan of the Holy See, once ran a letter guardedly praising Buchmanite aims. One of the prettiest Buchmanites extant, Baroness Connie de Hahn of Budapest, used to say at European meetings: "I was brought up a Roman Catholic, and being changed has made me a much better Roman Catholic." Last week, however, a potent Catholic prelate, Arthur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Tainted | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...scrimmage following the highball drill Chief Comslop and Fluff Stevadore ran positively wild churning up the water in the Bowl. Waters admitted that their performance may have been due to a favorable internal influence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Finger Bowlers Open Season With Dunking in Puddle Bowl | 4/1/1938 | See Source »

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