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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Forty-eight now, Charles Edison has often said that he was born with two strikes called. The late (1931), great Thomas Alva Edison was a genius, but a genius can be a hard father to grow up with. Gifted with none of his father's inventive fire, blessed with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATIONAL DEFENSE: Strong Arm | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Eight years are the probable span allotted him for this work. Last week he expressed, through Secretary Hull, his condolences upon the death of a man who had influenced U. S. life for 17 years, a man to whom Franklin Roosevelt had lately seemed to be turning as an ally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Consistent Influence | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Not until he was an old man did Louis Brandeis see an era where many men in power shared his penetrations and fears. A "liberal" Justice before the New Deal crystallized division of social & political thought on the Supreme Court, in his old age Brandeis moved from dissent to assent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Rocket & Flowerpots | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Men-o'-War. Three men know all about what both sides are doing. One is Admiral Claude Charles Bloch, a country boy from Kentucky who made good as Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Fleet, and is chief umpire in the Navy game. Another is one time Assistant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATIONAL DEFENSE: Strong Arm | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

The Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria (Manhattan) was dressed one night this week with smilax, gladiolas, palms and fine napery, as it is almost nightly for conventions of furriers, bankers and the like. Guests were a national collection of Republicans assembled by the New York political club of that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: It Was Republicans. . . . | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

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