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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile rising French unemployment crossed the 400,000 mark for the first time. Admittedly M. Flandin-younger than Roosevelt, Mussolini or Stalin*- faces a titanic task in attempting to bring French economy back to an even keel without invoking some spectacular "ism." Interviewed last week by the New York Times's smart Anne O'Hare McCormick, the tall, big-boned, broad-browed Premier declared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bread & Money | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

...they sat there--seven feet apart--in their rickety pine chairs while the State of New Jersey began grinding away at the task of selecting a jury to try Hauptmann for the crime that stunned civilization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News Salients | 1/3/1935 | See Source »

...more anxious to see football played by undergraduates than mechanized for the audience. Therefore, Mr. Bingham's speech should give the student body, and more particularly the football squad, assurance that the new coach will have but one job, teaching them the game, and not the additional task of "recruiting" candidates for graduate contests...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WARNINGS FROM BINGHAM | 1/3/1935 | See Source »

...Jersey's job is to make an entirely circumstantial case sufficiently powerful to convince twelve Hunterdon County jurymen "beyond a reasonable doubt" of Bruno Hauptmann's guilt. In charge of this difficult task is David T. Wilentz, the State's Attorney General who took over the prosecution of the Hauptmann case as soon as it broke last autumn. Small, dark, shrewd 40-year-old Prosecutor Wilentz is not only a good orator and jury handler but an able politician as well. Coming from Perth Amboy in Middlesex County, however, he will have no great local influence with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: At Flemington | 12/31/1934 | See Source »

Such a choice is lamentable and if carried out will ultimately fail to solve the problem and probably complicate an already difficult task of providing commuters with a satisfactory center for social inter-course and a common meeting ground. The gymnasium is a dreary dilapidated building and designed for athletic purposes. The cost of renovating it would be no small sum. Even if a large majority of the commuters were willing to contribute ten dollars each for that purpose it is unlikely that a large enough amount could be collected to make the necessary alterations. That some arrangements for commuters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE UNIVERSITY'S PROBLEM | 12/18/1934 | See Source »

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