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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passing through Butte, Mont. on her way home to Seattle from Brother John's wedding, Anna Roosevelt Boettiger said: "I don't think father will run for another term. It's a wearisome grind, campaigning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: In Motion | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

...monument to the President. At the hospital, however, the President chatted for a half-hour with the Crown Prince, invited Crown Princess Louise to Hyde Park for Saturday luncheon. There, although the President's mother wanted to serve country sausages, the President's wife had her way, and the Crown Princess was fed hot dogs dripping with mustard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: In Motion | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

...carrying 47 persons to death. Last week the jinx again perched on the westbound Olympian's cowcatcher. Steaming over the same high Montana plain, the train passed the scene of the Custer Creek tragedy, pulled up at Miles City for orders, then raced on for Harlowton. At the way station Ingobar, 110 miles by train west of Custer Creek, the Olympian was supposed to have waited until an eastbound special, carrying 120 CCC boys, could reach a siding to let the limited go through. But without automatic block signals to remind forgetful engineers of orders in their jumper pockets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Jinx | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

Next day the surge continued, with Allied Chemical leading the way with a $9 gain. On volume of 1,457,000 shares, the industrial averages went through the previous rally peak of 121 to 121.34. To Dow Theorists, of whom there are an immense number (TIME, June 20), this was enormously significant-if the rail averages confirmed the industrials by breaking through their previous high of 23.5, it meant a decisive change of trend. Two days later, rails, highballing after industrials, went to 24.9. To Robert Rhea, leading exponent of the Dew Theory, this was "more bullish than anything seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: First FLASHes | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

...which may restore the picturesque taverns and lock houses flanking the waterway. The 22-mile section between Washington and Point of Rocks, Md., it may turn into a boating and canoeing paradise. There were also rumors of an elaborate scheme to use part of the canal as right-of-way for a national highway between Washington and Gettysburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Canal Rescue | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

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