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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anger that he had not publicly vented on the Senate now poured out of Franklin Roosevelt upon the United Press. In a special statement that marked a new high in bad blood between him and the working press, he called the U. P.'s story false. The U. P. stuck to its guns and, when Mr. Roosevelt's next Neutrality move did come, had the satisfaction of noting that it was a moderate statement by Mr. Hull, not a Roosevelt ripsnorter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Rebels and Ripsnorter | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...petition from the president of the American Federation of Labor and a committee, seeking his intercession to restore prevailing wages for union men on WPA. Contemplating the disorders being indulged in by their followers throughout the land, the President of the U. S. answered them by dictating a statement to his press conference: "You cannot strike against the Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Rebels and Ripsnorter | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...Scottsboro Boys and John Strachey. She was Carol Weiss King, 44, a short, swart, athletic Manhattan widow with bushy black eyebrows and thick eyeglasses, a specialist in labor and radical defense work, particularly alien deportations. Examiner Landis was stern with her when she opened her case with a long statement to the effect that Harry Bridges was being railroaded by the Interests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: On Angel Island | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...read with amusement your statement under Radio (TIME, May 22) that the news broadcasts of the B.B.C. are "straight and accurate." Actually, nothing could be further from the truth, as the B.B.C. is as Red as they make 'em, and its distorted, lying and slanderous statements are equalled only by the foreign-language broadcasts from Moscow and the nightly French, anti-Fascist "news" bulletins in Italian from Nice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 17, 1939 | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

Early this week, at long last, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain got around to uttering the dread word Danzig. In a statement approved in advance by Poland and France, the Prime Minister tried to set at rest any lingering doubts that his Government would back up the Poles in resisting a German conquest of the Free City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: We Have Guaranteed | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

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