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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Two months ago Harry Hopkins said he would resume residence in Iowa so that his motherless daughter, Diana, 7, could have a "real home." Last week, to make good, he leased for two years from Aetna Life Insurance Co. a 388-acre farm three miles north of Grinnell, Iowa, where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Direct Contact | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

Whether Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was then waging an undeclared war of sabotage on the U. S. was the issue in the famed, long-lived Black Tom and Kingsland Cases. Last week no less an adjudicator than Supreme Court Justice Owen Josephus Roberts found that Germany 1) did indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Black Fritz | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

Three days later the House sat through 14 hours of tumultuous debate. At 1 a. m. it passed and sent to the Senate a measure designed to make Relief in 1940 quite different from previous years. > Total money voted: $1,735,000,000.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: For 1940 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

Traffic over the International Bridge between the French and Russian Concessions was stopped. Foreign ships were halted and forced to dock at Japanese wharves; only after four days of the blockade were two British ships finally allowed to come up the Hai River to the Concession docks. While most other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: Lots of Trouble | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

Stimson offered Britain U. S. collaboration in stopping the Japanese. Sir John Simon, the British Foreign Secretary, not only turned the offer down, but later, at Geneva, argued for "realism" and "flexibility" in applying the League of Nations Covenant against Japan. What the British then hoped was that the Japanese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: Lots of Trouble | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

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