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More jovial was the response to Mr. Wallace. Scripps-Howard Cartoonist Tal-burt summed it up by picturing a beaming figure called Third Term perched on a stairway, to the consternation of Conservative Democrats below, and quoting New York University Professor Mearns's jingle about the little man who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Better Natured | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Because a Federal law dating back to 1870 forbids Army officers on active duty to hold civilian office, Madam Perkins had to appoint a dummy administrator, make Colonel Fleming technically subject to this figurehead as well as to her. Chosen for this temporary front job was Wage-Hour's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Elmer Out | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Scripps-Howard Columnist Raymond Clapper last week printed the following story about Franklin Roosevelt. In 1937 the President was so impressed by a cinema short on the late Kamal Ataturk's new Turkey that he dashed off a glowing letter to Kamal Ataturk, noted in passing that he hoped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Happy Story | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Quoting that line without naming its author, Scripps-Howard Columnist Raymond Clapper sizzled: "I think it is very much to the point to be thinking of our skins-at least to be thinking of those American families whose sons would have to risk their skins." Into the Congressional Record went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Record Sandwich | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

Kept in the dark while negotiations were going on were some 150 News-Telegram employes, all but one of whom at week's end were jobless. Most disgusted of the 149 was Reporter Dave Dryden. Under him the Scripps Spokane Press had folded equally suddenly last spring. Cracked he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Scripps Tease | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

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