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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Major R. R. Wright is a really remarkable individual for more reasons than you had space to tell in your excellent report of the National Negro Bankers' Association convention (TIME, July 17, p. 60). After four score restless years most men are ready to lay down their arms and leave the fighting to younger men with stronger bodies. But the Major is just beginning, and there is no telling when he will stop...
This meeting was at Franklin Roosevelt's invitation. It was an act, not of self-abasement like Neville Chamberlain's trip to Munich, but of cheerful desperation. He wanted to tell the Senate's leaders face to face why he needed a free hand in world power politics, what was going on in the mad world abroad...
Besides having no automobile, he carries no watch. He gets the time from waiters, or from clocks in store windows, and one of the duties of his man secretary is to tell him the time. The other duties of the secretary include seeing that his clothes are pressed and that he sometimes gets a haircut. His critics say that it's a pose, his friends that he has always been that...
Last week the Senate Banking and Currency Committee put new Federal Loan Administrator Jesse H. Jones on the carpet, asked him about the success of Federal lending. To a query about the amount of losses on RFC loans to business, the retiring RFC Chairman admitted: "I am ashamed to tell you what I think it will be. It will be plenty...
...coup d'état. Since the story of Napoleon Bonaparte is to history what Ulysses and Faust are to myth, pettifogging historians have had hard work making it dull reading. Sometimes Author Pratt labors harder than he needs to keep it lively. But when he lets the legend tell itself, adding only his "worm's-eye view" (sidelights from old memoirs, letters, newssheets), he rivets readers' interest as easily as if he were pointing to a comet...