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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Credit. "Our self-contained national economy would have enabled us to recover long since but for the continued dislocations, shocks and setbacks from abroad. . . . Vast liquidation and readjustments have left us with a large degree of credit paralysis. If we can put our financial resources to work, I am confident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: State of the Union | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

That year he wrote a letter to John Davison Rockefeller Jr., who was director of the General Education Board. Enthusiasm brightened his ink. "The career of early man . . . can now be written out in a much fuller form. The materials out of which we can recover and put together its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: East Gone West | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

In Brooklyn, Thomas ("Cheerful Tom") Nestor left work early. A sandhog, digging under the East River in an atmosphere of compressed air, he was eager to get home and tidy up the apartment to greet his wife next day when she returned from the hospital with their new baby. He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 7, 1931 | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

Rene Clair, director of the film "Le Million," also supervised the production of "Sous les Toits de Paris," and is noted for his subordination of dialogue to pantomine. The plot of the film is chiefly that of a lost lottery ticket and of the frantic efforts to recover it.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "LE MILLION" APPEARS AT FOUR PERFORMANCES | 12/1/1931 | See Source »

For the purpose of making myself properly understood, I beg to say that I have volunteered as a pilot in order to fulfill my duty as a citizen of the Republic of China to drive the barbarous invaders out of Manchuria, to recover out territory occupied by them in Manchuria...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 11/28/1931 | See Source »

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