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As publisher of the Houston Chronicle, Jesse Jones long ago promised that RFC would make no newspaper investments, lest the New Deal be suspected of trying to control the U. S. Press. Month ago RFC secretly acquired a third of the Tennessean's outstanding bonds from a defunct New...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Tennessee Threat | 10/21/1935 | See Source »

If the guilder should go the way of the yen, pound and dollar, it is certain that Indonesia would increase her sales. But is it certain that the yen, pound and dollar will not dance on down an insane spiral with no bottom? And should Dutchmen join in such a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: I Will Maintain! | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

A little later the vigilant Daily News did the next best thing to bringing in Alexander Jamie. Editor Kahn sent to Chicago for Jamie's son Wallace, a 27-year-old graduate of University of Chicago's School of Police Administration. Together Messrs, Warren, Kahn and Jamie plotted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Symphony of Corruption | 7/8/1935 | See Source »

To cheat the chair of their client, last week at Trenton Counsel Fisher & associates sought a new trial from the New Jersey Court of Errors & Appeals. Also on hand was Attorney General David T. Wilentz, the man who did more than any other to convict Hauptmann. In marked contrast to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Appeal at Trenton | 7/1/1935 | See Source »

At once Father Parsons protested to NBC, which offered a number of explanations to the effect that someone should have been more vigilant. Father Parsons protested to the Federal Communications Commission, which started the motions of a routine investigation. Sixteen Catholic & non-Catholic Congressmen excitedly demanded that the Commission summarily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Jesuit v. Eulogy | 5/6/1935 | See Source »

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