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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In your July 10 issue, under National Affairs, you make reference to the President's having "singled out Felix Belair Jr., correspondent of the New York Times, for a special blast about big newspapers, whom he accused of wishing to see control of the money markets return to private...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 31, 1939 | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

A drive to deprive him of his unprecedented monetary powers the President had parried (TIME, July 10). But within six historic days: the legal authority of most of the "alphabet" administrative agencies set up under the New Deal was gravely threatened, its Labor program was imperiled, its yardstick utility plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Taking It | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

The Capitol of the United States stood last week as white, massive and immovable as ever under the hot July sun. But within it took place a series of political upheavals more momentous than any since the Hundred Days of 1933. Explosion after smoky explosion blew away Franklin Roosevelt'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Collapse In the Capitol | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

During this retreat Groesbeck was not thinking of winning victories. He was thinking of saving his army. All through the winter, as he shuttled back & forth between Washington and Manhattan, Groesbeck wondered how he could get out from under, how he could forestall public agencies from building competitive transmission lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Pat on the Back | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

In Sun City property was communal, money abolished, law-breaking punished with crucifixion. But Utopias under arms are even less durable than Utopias in peace. End of Spartacus' briefly brilliant career came when asthmatic, cynical Marcus Crassus propped up the tottering Roman republic for a few more years by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Utopia Under Arms | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

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