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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elected by the U. S. people, decided to declare war. Many and complex were the causes leading to this decision made by the President and Congress. To hang any large part of the "blame" on J. P. Morgan & Co. seems to TIME to be first-class politics and third-rate history. TIME, Aug. 14, made a point of the fact that before the U. S. entered the War the House of Morgan was sentimentally and financially interested in helping the Allies to obtain loans and buy war supplies in the U. S. This is the gist of what...
...nations affected by the Soviet-German Pact, Japan was hardest hit. Before it, she had been a second-rate power with first-rate connections; after it, she was a no greater power with no connections at all. Nobuyuki Abe certainly realized it. "Japan," he said, "will have a troubled future...
Mayor Lyons, running for re-election, although he has lowered the Cambridge tax rate by 50 cents to $41 per thousand assessor real estate valuation, faces opposition on two fronts. The police force is down on him for closing the path to advancement for many years by twenty-one receipt promotions, and Labor is angry at his refusal, for obscure political reasons, to accept Federal money for building improvements...
...these positions vary in the type of work and the amount that can be earned during the academic year, but the Student Employment Office has established a minimum rate of fifty cents an hour for about ten hours of work a week
...truck sales rose 47.1% above the first half of 1938, Chrysler's rose 56.1% (the industry excluding Chrysler rose less than 40% in spite of the effect of the May-June strike troubles on Chrysler). Meanwhile, Chrysler common (currently selling under $80, paying at the rate of $8 a share) yields...