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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eleanor Roosevelt last week wrote in My Day: "After lunch yesterday my brother [Gracie Hall Roosevelt] wanted to go over to look at a barn which the President is interested in changing into a house. As usual, the President thinks it can be done far more economically than the rest of us do. I was glad to have my brother bear me out, but our combined arguments had no effect on the President, who said cheerfully: 'Well, we will wait and see,' with the calm conviction that he could perform miracles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Miraculous Conviction | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...First-line" planes would be only a small proportion of the total on hand in wartime. The rest would be in reserve, to replace losses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: School for Willa | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

Snug in the workers' fatherland, Premier Hammer and Secretary Steel watched their friends approaching. To the rest of the world the race-rout through Poland looked like a bloody blur. To Poles it was just bloody. But to Russians it was coming closer all the time. Over the plains, around the swamps, through the cities, past Cracow, Lwow, Brest-Litovsk, into Galicia, down to the Polish Ukraine, hurried the approaching friends, grabbing the industrial region and the coal mines in passing, looking as big and as powerful as an express train seems to a motorist stalled in the middle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Dizziness From Success | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...this number, a standard size for the past ten Freshman classes, approximately 900 will be newcomers, while dropped and provisional Freshmen will make up the rest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thousand Freshmen Will Sign Names Today in Memorial Hall, Attend Talk By President Conant in Union Tonight | 9/22/1939 | See Source »

...rest of Saturday morning and the afternoon the Class of '43 will spend in conference with their several advisers, in language examinations, and in tours of Widener Library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thousand Freshmen Will Sign Names Today in Memorial Hall, Attend Talk By President Conant in Union Tonight | 9/22/1939 | See Source »

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