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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reporters had already heard about its nature. The State Department had disclosed that it expressed "the earnest hope that nothing may occur to injure the peaceful relations of Finland and Russia," and that U. S. action had been taken independently of that of any other country. If reporters could make no bang-up story of that, it was just because, when diplomats really go into action, bang-up stories are usually misleading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: To the Finland Station | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Closest parallel is perhaps Senator John Scott's inquiry in the Ku Klux Klan in 1871, which began as a straight political move, accepted rumors, facts, alarms, nevertheless succeeded despite its flounderings, or perhaps because of them, in startling the victorious North with a picture of the desperate state of mind of the defeated South. Few correspondents would give Chairman Dies credit for statesmanship. Many held him only a showman. Some considered him a dangerous demagogue; some gave credit for the Committee's more effective work to Investigator J. B. Matthews and Attorney Rhea Whitley. But the Committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: No Dies | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...snow-haired, weeping octogenarian Secretary-Treasurer Frank Morrison on pension ($6,000) after 43 years of service, replaced him with 45-year-old President George Meany of the New York State Federation of Labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Back to Papa? | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...emerged with a dubious 677 percentage. Nothing daunted and mumbling something about "Hard luck," the prognosticators once more attach themselves out on a limb and whisper: Harvard 20 Pennsylvania 14 Yale 7 Army 6 Princeton 13 Columbia 6 Dartmouth 20 Lafayette 6 Alabama 16 Tennessee 13 Cornell 13 Penn State 7 Temple 19 Boston College 14 Minnesota 7 Ohio State 6 Northwestern 12 Wisconsin 6 Texas A. & M. 14T. C. U. 12 Michigan 61 Chicago 0 Notre Dame 13 Navy 0 Pittsburgh 20 Duquesne 7 Holy Cross 14 Brown 3 Kentucky 20 Georgia 12 Indiana 13 Illinois...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOTBALL SCORES | 10/21/1939 | See Source »

WASHINGTON--Fred Beal, former Communist party organizer now serving a North Carolina state prison term, today urged the House committee on un-American activities to guard its witnesses against reprisals by party members and the dread. OGPU, Soviet Russian Secret police agency...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 10/21/1939 | See Source »

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