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Dates: during 1930-1939
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To begin with, Tennessee has had winning football teams, studded with All-America and All-Southern players, bedecked with the scalps of the best teams in the country, so long under Neyland that it is rumored that the football extras of the Knoxville newspapers are made up before the games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 20, 1939 | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Night before he spoke his mind, the U. S. Maritime Commission in Washington announced its conditional approval of the transfer of eight ships of the United States Lines to the flag of the Republic of Panama. Banned from belligerent ports, banned from their regular North Atlantic runs because of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Ethical Question | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Border Statesman. Within one hour up spoke Secretary Hull in Washington to announce a contrary view. A quiet, softspoken, long-suffering ex-judge (keeping close control over one of the hottest tempers in Washington), Cordell Hull's difficulties have long provided left-wing New Dealers with some of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Ethical Question | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Last week the 45,000,000 citizens of Brazil celebrated two anniversaries-their 50th as a Republic, their second as a dictatorship. In honor of the occasion, plump Dictator-President Getulio Vargas proclaimed a paternal decree setting up a national commission for the protection of parents with many children.*

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Bombers of Good Will | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

What Mr. Morgenthau said he was not worrying about was the U. S. public debt, still climbing to alltime highs, now teetering at more than $41,168,000,000. Another thing he was presumably not worrying about was the U. S. law which flatly forbids the public debt to go...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Death and Taxes | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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