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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Above the gabble of minor seers there last week arose the well-respected voice of Col. Leonard Porter Ayres, studious vice president of Cleveland Trust Co. Distinguishing the present world-wide depression from the domestic depressions of 1924 and 1927, Col. Ayres, writing in Collier's, predicted a turning point in the near future. "Now arises the emotion of fear," he said. "Things ,,ere [last spring] brighter looking than they were. Now they look darker than they are. This is the last phase of the depression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dr. Ayres's Diagnosis | 9/1/1930 | See Source »

Edward of Wales, heir to the throne, is, and would like to remain, a bachelor. Next in succession is the studious, slightly stuttering Duke of York, of whom Edward P. has often privately told his friends: "He would make a far better King than I." Third in succession at the present time is effervescent, curly-headed Princess Elizabeth, "Princess Lilybet," King George's favorite grandchild, now aged 4. Though Britain's two greatest rulers were women, politicians dislike queens. A Man-Child was sorely needed, much-longed-for last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: North of the Tweed | 8/11/1930 | See Source »

Last week the President of the U. S. appointed a Minister to Haiti. He is Dana Gardner Munro, 38, studious son of that scholarly father, Princeton's Professor of Medieval History, Dr. Dana Carleton Munro. Young Minister Munro is an engaging, gentle diplomat, chief of the Department of State's Division of Latin-American Affairs, author of an authoritative book on Central America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Minister to Haiti | 7/7/1930 | See Source »

...breaking plurality of more than 300,000 votes, Mr. Morrow closed a volume of Herodotus he had been reading in his library, made no quotable comment, went to bed.* Somewhere in the ballot-deluge which had nominated him was the first vote of Dwight Whitney Morrow Jr., just 21, studious Amherst son of a scholarly Amherst father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Makings of the 72nd (Cont.) | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

...Presidents the U. S. has ever had." Says Author Eckenrode: a Democrat in the White House so soon after the Civil War might well have caused more bloodshed. Rutherford Hayes was born in Delaware, Ohio, in 1822, a posthumous child, descendant of sturdy New England yeomen gone pioneering westward. Studious, ambitious, active, Hayes was "of a rather gay nature, a good talker, fond of men and fonder of women." He studied law, practiced it, but was glad when the Civil War came. One of the things he liked about war was freedom from shaving. He started to let his beard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: 19th President | 5/26/1930 | See Source »

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