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When it was over the White House announcer declared that President Roosevelt had just broadcast his 36th radio address since taking office. But to most listeners his speech was his first heart-to-heart with the country at large since last October when, hopeful of price-upping, he started RFC...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: God's Country | 7/9/1934 | See Source »

Not content with this list of distinguishing characteristics, the gentleman must needs become a philosopher, and will drape himself in a chair and discourse by the hour, and entertainingly, too, on anything from the late Mr. Napoleon to the publicity drives of the local humorous publication. Enhanced by rhetorical jerks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Portraits of Harvard Figures | 4/27/1934 | See Source »

It is unfortunate that Wilson has not seen fit to follow more closely the organization and style of the shorter but more satisfactory account written by Thomas Jefferson in the Biddle edition of the Journals of Lewis and Clark. It is clear that he was acquainted with it because he...

Author: By S. C. S., | Title: CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 3/28/1934 | See Source »

*Rhetorical, the General not being present.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECOVERY: Kicking Party (Cont'd) | 3/12/1934 | See Source »

Last October Author John McConaughy dropped dead on a Manhattan street, leaving behind him, as all men must, unfinished business. But this particular work in progress was far enough along to be given a posthumous issue. Whether or not Author McConaughy meant to answer his own rhetorical question, his indignant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rhetorical Question | 2/26/1934 | See Source »

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