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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Meanwhile at Nahant, Mass., where a sharply horizontal house is abuilding for Son No. 4 John's parent-in-law-to-be, Fiancee Anne Lindsay Clark's eleven-year-old sister Joan said of Franklin Roosevelt, to whom she refers somewhat prematurely as "Uncle Franklin": "I like him. He's smart. He said I was one American who came to Washington without a set of demands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Family Week | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

...true that the Japanese battleship Mutsu was sunk off Kiangyin by Chinese aircraft in the last week of November 1937? Is it true that Mutsu's sister ship Nagata was built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 18, 1938 | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

...chance Franklin Roosevelt failed to understand Mr. Garner last week he could have found substantially the same advice expressed with equal cogency elsewhere. In her Washington Herald last week, Publisher Eleanor Patterson, sister of Publisher Joseph M. Patterson of the proletarian and pro-Roosevelt New York Daily News, ran an open letter headlined WHAT YOU COULD SAY, PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. In it she took the President's "dare" to tell him exactly what to say "that would banish fear." Cissie Patterson's remedies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Pitching in a Pinch | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

Author Stuart admits he does not know where the poetic streak in his family comes from (his 21-year-old brother, James, and his 16-year-old sister write too). He can only record how many poems he wrote, not how he wrote them or where they came from. But they have been coming for a long while. As a kid he went coon hunting with a lantern and a volume of Burns, read poetry by lantern light until the dog's barking signaled a treed coon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Uninhibited Poet | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

...dead youth was the son of Town Counsel and Mrs. Fred W. Fisher of Winthrop. In addition to his parents he leaves a twin sister, Beatrice, 22-years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fisher Shoots Self at Home in Year's Third Harvard Suicide | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

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