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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reserve's Division of Research and Statistics. Asked if the situation called for expansion of Government spending, WPA Administrator Hopkins answered that it was much too early to say. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, who presumably stated his chief's views on budgetary matters in his speech two days later (see p. 16), also popped into the Executive wing, as did Daniel Roper, Acting Budget Director Daniel Bell, Edward F. McGrady- who resigned as Assistant Secretary of Labor in September to become RCA's director of labor relations-and Chairman Robert L. Doughton of the House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Recessional | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...single incident of the story, where Carson and Craig pick up two girls in Paris, is deftly made the turning point in the action. The sense of drifting is given reality both by an expert use of detail, and by long idiomatic sentences, winding into patterns of thought, half speech, marked by the use of participles and repeated phrases. Here, however, one is aware of Hemingway and Proust. Mr. Laughlin's style is sometimes mannered because it is initiative: "Walking and sometimes talking, walking slowly, talking lightly, not hurrying and not delaying, hardly thinking what we are saying; so walking...

Author: By Walter E. Houghton jr., | Title: On The Rack | 11/17/1937 | See Source »

Vigorously lashing at critics of the Social Security Act, Thomas H. Eliot '28, lecturer in Government and former General Counsel for the Security Board, defended and explained the act in a speech at Winthrop House last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELIOT DISCUSSES SECURITY | 11/16/1937 | See Source »

...keep faith with audiences who have grown to expect a modicum of Yankee Doodle from Actor Cohan on any stage. the President closes the show with a typical Fourth of July speech about the U. S.. "A country where, if things are wrong you can get right out and talk about them. And . . . there aren't many countries like that left in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 15, 1937 | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

...speech of the Dictator, wildly cheered as usual, was strongly pro-French and pro-League of Nations in tone. omitted for the first time those enthusiastic references to Soviet Russia which the Father of the Turks started making some years ago. The dispute between France and Turkey over the administration of Alexandretta was settled through the League of Nations by giving Alexandretta "autonomy," i.e., turning it over to its Turkish majority (TIME, Feb. 15), and the Dictator declared last week: "There is no doubt that France will continue to act in good faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: President & Pacifiers | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

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