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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when you conclude that this type of campaigning is necessary in the State which has the highest percentage of illiterates in its population you flee from logic. With our Niggers not voting, as they don't, our electorate is nearly or quite as literate as your own borough of Manhattan. . . . Wouldn't the joint campaign system be as useful in Tammany's domain as among our good white Democrats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 14, 1936 | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

Thanks to TIME (Aug. 31), for expressing so well what we often have thought about gossip columnists of the Parsons type...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 14, 1936 | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

...politics more calamitous blunders have been made by the theory that an orator is a statesman than for any other reason. The oratorical type Is the emotional type, expansive, a quick promiser who can diagnose evils and cannot prescribe for them, and of course rarely cures them. The orator has fooled people as an executive ever since the ballot box was invented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Battle of Booklets | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

About 60,000 expectant peasant mothers will immediately benefit, receiving cash compensation for pay lost while they must stop work, and something besides for the midwife. However, Italian farm mothers of the type to whom Il Duce geared his oration last week are apt to consider the calling in of a doctor or midwife no more necessary for a healthy woman than for a healthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: War Games & Mothers | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

Though streamlined, the new cars are so designed that they can be used along with old-style cars. As more of the new type roll onto the rails, railroads will be able gradually to build up complete streamlined trains. To demonstrate this idea. Pullman will send its new unit all over the U. S. attached for a week at a time to crack non-streamline trains, of which the Century was first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Pullman's Progress | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

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