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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Homolka,* happened to be a Baroness Hatvany, TIME should leap to the conclusion that it must be the former wife of Baron Ludwig Hatvany, better known to the world as the playwright and novelist, Christa Winsloe? ..." The Baroness Vally Hatvany was a young actress, and. according to your own report was 24 years old, which should immediately have cast doubts in your mind on her identity with Miss Winsloe, whose famous play and film Maedchen in Uniform appeared in Germany in 1930 or 1931, and in this country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 2, 1938 | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...Report. There are currently about 12,870,000 U. S. unemployed. On relief are more than 17,314,000. By April 1 approximately 14% of the nation's population were beneficiaries of public aid of one kind or another. These facts, included last week in a preliminary report by the Senate's Special Committee to Investigate Unemployment & Relief, headed by South Carolina's pro-Rooseveltian Senator James Francis Byrnes, would have been enough to make that document arresting. It contained considerably more. Eight weeks ago Financier Bernard Mannes Baruch told the Byrnes Committee that the chief cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Taxes | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

Conference. Byrnes Committee report was issued at precisely the moment when this recommendation was sure to have maximum effect. House & Senate committees-the latter headed by Senator Pat Harrison, whom Senator Byrnes is supposed to have persuaded to vote for the Reorganization Bill last month-had been deadlocked over the tax bill for a week. Cause of the deadlock: Pat Harrison's Senate Committee was adamant about eliminating the undistributed profits tax entirely, modifying capital gains levies almost out of sight; Bob Doughton's House Committee was equally adamant about saving the Administration's face by preserving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Taxes | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...pertinently if Harvard's theory fits that goal. And specifically he should ask whether the admissions, advisory, and tutorial systems, which are all related by a thread of continuity, carry out the theory. Perhaps the answers to these questions lie in the statement in President Conant's report for 1937 that "the immediate task before us is the intensification of our effort...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EDUCATION IN THE YARD | 4/26/1938 | See Source »

...Potter will shortly have another arrow in his quiver-a report soon to be released by the impartial SEC on Mr. Young's proposed simplification of the Alleghany empire. SEC records show that this plan, formulated by a group preponderantly interested in the common stock of Alleghany, would benefit the common stock at the expense of other Alleghany and Chesapeake securities, notably the Series A Alleghany preferred. The owners of the 667,539 shares of this issue (among them Donaldson Brown and Mr. & Mrs. Young) were asked to surrender the right to accumulated dividends of $33 per share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Babes & Wolves | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

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