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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...constant reader of TIME since its earliest publication, I should like to register a vote on TIME'S June 12 issue, Michigan news, as the ungodliest and goofiest bit of reporting and editing yet to appear. This freshmanlike attempt leads one to believe that you do not know your Michigan onions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 3, 1939 | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...newscameras, Miss Bankhead hugged Uncle John and cried: "Of course you'll vote to do something for the unemployed actors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Theatre Lobby | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

Taxation was the one big subject on which all agreed. Three days after the House had passed its measure with but one dissenting vote, easing corporate income taxes and removing business "irritants" (TIME, June 26), the Senate passed the measure unanimously, shot it to the White House, leaving President Roosevelt one week in which to preserve the excise tax structure expiring June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Lumber Pile | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

Money Bills. Extension beyond June 30 of the Treasury's $2,000,000,000 exchange stabilization fund, of its silver purchasing power, and of the President's power to devalue the dollar further, were all voted two months ago by the House. Old Senator Glass kept the bill deadlocked in his Banking and Currency subcommittee until the White House induced Senator Miller of Arkansas to change his vote. The bill then got out to the Senate floor, with Senator Glass swearing from his sickbed that he would fight to the end against monkeying with the currency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Lumber Pile | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...replied Uncle John, "I don't think I will.' These city fellows in Congress never vote to do anything for the farmers. Sol Bloom [Representative from Manhattan] and that whole crowd always vote against the farm bills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Theatre Lobby | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

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