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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moment that it was President Herbert Hoover who had the RFC created in January 1932, and who, by proclamation, continued it for a second year. When Franklin Roosevelt became President, he scorned this Old Deal agency for many a month, allowed it to lapse almost out of sight. When he finally got around to coordinating it into his recovery program, he discovered it was one of the most useful agencies at his command. In 1934 he got Congress to continue it for a third year and last week Mr. Jones was watching the House renew its charter for two years...
Last week Japan, in effect, repeated her maneuver of the Twenty-One Demands, and again every Japanese official had instructions to deny everything in sight. They first denied that Japan is pressing fresh demands upon China's wasp-waisted little Dictator, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. What actually happened last week, Japanese insisted, was that Generalissimo Chiang of his own volition invited to a secret conference at Nanking the Japanese Minister to China, suave, hearty Akira Ariyoshi and the Japanese Military Attache, exceedingly pugnacious Lieut. General Yoshimichi Suzuki...
Suddenly upon the screen was flashed the naked corpse of Public Enemy George ("Baby Face'') Nelson, scarred, cut and bloodied by the bullets of Federal agents (TIME. Dec. 10). At the grisly sight Doris Preisler gasped, gripped her husband's arm, shut her eyes in horror. Hustled home, she suffered a miscarriage, underwent two operations. Last week Sidney & Doris Preisler sued Universal Pictures for $150,000 on the ground that the newsreel had done them that much damage...
Thirteen years ago a 29-year-old Cleveland dentist named Joseph E. Klein found himself in Manhattan, idling along Broadway. It was a balmy summer evening. Klein caught sight of a line of people a block long, inching patiently toward an unknown destination...
Theoretically the desire for toy trains is unlimited. President Cowen's biggest problem, which is also the problem of many another toymaker, is the marked seasonal character of his business. The sales curve starts to climb steeply in October, sinks almost out of sight after Christmas. It takes an enormous amount of capital to keep Lionel Corp. going during its nine lean months. Last May, hampered by lack of capital, with some $296,000 owing to creditors, Lionel Corp. slipped into receivership...