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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expedition aims to make maps of this region, which is described as one of the few which still is unknown. Most of the work can be done by aerial photographs, but it is necessary to survey triangulation points from the ground and take panorama photographs with a special 120 degree opening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Expedition Leaves for Alaska To Take Aerial Photographs | 5/3/1938 | See Source »

Some 150 Senators and Representatives and their wives, led by Vice President Garner like a small Scoutmaster, trooped to the station and got on the Azalea Special. In Charleston, as the guests of the city, they visited the Navy yards, rubbered at beauty queens, went to a ball. At a luncheon given by Mayor Burnet Maybank, Mr. Garner made news by opening the closet and displaying the current Democratic family skeleton. Referring to a "misunderstanding between me and my boss" (by whom he meant President Roosevelt) he said: "I sometimes do not agree with my wife. You can understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Azaleas | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...unemployed. On relief are more than 17,314,000. By April 1 approximately 14% of the nation's population were beneficiaries of public aid of one kind or another. These facts, included last week in a preliminary report by the Senate's Special Committee to Investigate Unemployment & Relief, headed by South Carolina's pro-Rooseveltian Senator James Francis Byrnes, would have been enough to make that document arresting. It contained considerably more. Eight weeks ago Financier Bernard Mannes Baruch told the Byrnes Committee that the chief cause of the country's current economic ills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Taxes | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

Text: It is the special request of the King that Princess Margaret Rose shall not be cut out of any of these pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: President Elizabeth | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...wide Unter den Linden last week paraded 8,522 men and 870 horses, the well-trained German troops goosestepping, the as yet untutored German Austrians passing by in an ordinary march. No novelty is a parade to the German capital, but this one, shorter than usual, had as its special point the 49th birthday of the Chief of National Defense of Greater Germany, Adolf Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Genius Hitler | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

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