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Pressed by Carl Lomen and Governor John W. Troy, who wired an urgent appeal from Juneau, Federal Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins dug down into his misery chest for $50,000 to rebuild and re-victualize the ashy remains of Nome.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Nome No More | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

To Franklin Roosevelt's discomfiture, Nominee Sinclair, in a dither of haste to get into the spotlight, wired him asking for an interview as soon as possible. There is plenty of precedent for a President keeping on the fence in a pre-primary campaign, but for him to deny his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Nothing Else to Do | 9/10/1934 | See Source »

To President Roosevelt, who knows how to get favorable publicity without resorting to an official press, this large accusation was too much. Deciding to make the vociferous Senator "put up or shut up." he wired him: "I request that you give me the benefit of such facts as you have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Canard | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

John Hunt Morgan, Alabama-born (1825), was a member of an aristocratic Kentucky family. At 21 he first saw action in the Mexican War, liked it so much that when he went home he founded the Lexington Rifles, which attracted all the young bloods in town. When the Civil War...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Raider & Terrible Men | 8/20/1934 | See Source »

Those who went to Washington on Labor questions last week went to see "Madam Queen." Her prestige had grown while others' had shrunk. She received President Green of the A. F. of L. and President Mike Tighe of the steel workers with their proposals for settling steel's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Madam Queen Up | 7/2/1934 | See Source »

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