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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whose bent lies in gathering ads, or who'd rather stand on top of the Stadium and snap Struck scoring a touchdown, there will also be an opportunity to come out when the CRIMSON fall competition starts. And one important thing--it will all be done by Christmas, so that plenty of time is left of midyear exam studying...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Invites Freshmen To Come Around, See How A Daily Paper Is Planned | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...speeches on his "intake" Western tour, Franklin Roosevelt discovered two subjects that were sure-fire with all audiences. One was Peace. The other was balancing the budget. First thing the President did on his return was to reshape U. S. foreign policy. Last week he turned his attention to the budget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Balanced Thinking | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...Paul Pioneer Press. Patched by Congress with amendments, it enabled Secretary of Agriculture Wallace to deliver the checks the Farmers wanted-a maximum $400,000,000 worth annually. Whether it has conserved $400,000,000 worth of U. S. soil annually has been beside the political point. But one thing the Soil Conservation Act has not been: an effective tool for crop control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Human Ingenuity | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...Kentucky lawyer named Walter Gilbert Campbell, has agents posted throughout the country, watching for just such pharmaceutical accidents. Those men last week confiscated every last flask of the Massengill "elixir" upon which they could lay their hands. A Federal agent at Bristol said to Chief Campbell: "The most amazing thing about the company was the total lack of testing facilities. Apparently they just throw drugs together, and if they don't explode they are placed on sale." Dr. Massengill cooperated with the Food & Drug men by sending warning telegrams to all his sulfanilamide customers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fatal Remedy | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...from-the-tracks railroader but the next thing to it-up-from-a-telegrapher's-key-Ernest Norris got his first railroad job as assistant agent for the Chicago & North Western at Arlington Heights, Ill. In 1902 he went with the Southern as special agent & car tracer, in the days when freight car hire was a complicated matter of mileage rather than per diem rental. He has lived in the South ever since, married a Southern girl, but never acquired the accent, remained a Republican, always suffered from the heat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: South Server | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

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