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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wallace to put it on the grand scale. After four years Secretary Wallace finally succeeded in getting Congress to adopt the plan in the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938. Last week his emissary to the International Wheat Conference in London ambitiously proposed putting the granary plan on a world-wide basis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CROPS: Grandiose Scheme | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

Lowell Mellett, 54, is a coiner nowadays in the Administration's inner circle. Brother of the late crusading Editor Don Mellett of the Canton, Ohio News, he, too, is a newspaperman of wide experience. This year Franklin Roosevelt signed him on. Fellow newspapermen see him as a candidate being groomed to succeed wily old Charles Michelson, 69. Democratic national pressagent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Problem No. 1 | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

...Pulitzer Prize for his reporting of the sessions of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for the New York Times. After 16 years with the Times and four years with the New York Herald Tribune, he began a lucrative career as a freelance writer, achieved wide renown as a frequent author of the New Yorker's Profiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Potent Postscript | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

...keys click in response to radio impulses, picked up a message typewritten through the air from a Georgetown laboratory. Engineer Lemmon told the commission that one television station wavelength assignment would be roomy enough for 1,125 radio-typewriter channels, asked that his company be assigned wavelength space as wide as one television station is for experiment with radio business machines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Quicker Fox | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

...George Washington when it took Woodrow Wilson to the Peace Conference, devised a pioneer ship-to-shore telephone service for that trip, made a fortune from his patent on single-dial radio control and twenty-odd other radio inventions. Also a broadcaster, he is founder president of the World Wide Broadcasting Foundation which owns and operates non-profit shortwave Station WIXAL (Boston), dips into his own pocket to broadcast New England enlight enment to the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Quicker Fox | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

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