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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recently you printed a letter re the U. S. Government's not paying rent for cemeteries in France where American World War dead are buried. I'm glad the matter was cleared up. Can you straighten out this rumor-did the U. S. pay rent for trenches occupied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

... We own, less than 50 miles from the border, the greatest iron deposit on the American continent, our ore running 60 to 68%, with millions of tons which can be picked up by steam shovel. This is not far from Presidio on the Texas border line. Our engineers predict that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

We have long become accustomed to such inane handling of things pertaining to this country by schoolma'am writers and Hollywood movie producers, but had thought TIME dry behind the ears. Now that you are off to a good start, dish up something worthy of record. As for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Act II takes place on Capitol Hill, in two scenes: 1) in Mr. Doughton's Ways & Means Committee, where a new tax bill is drafted; 2) in Mr. Harrison's Finance Committee, where it is polished up. Act III takes place at the nearest Internal Revenue Bureau office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: New Twist | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

That was good news for William Green, bad (but expected) news for John Lewis. For David Dubinsky, short, energetic, good-natured president of I. L. G. W. U., it was a good way of saying where, in his opinion, lay the responsibility for labor's split. Nobody in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Big Split | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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