Word: york
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York City...
...properly confused. After following the Dies Committee I am completely at sea. LIFE Magazine has shown pictures of Communist Party headquarters in New York, you carried on the cover of one of your issues [TIME, May 30] a picture of the Communist candidate for President, who is presumably a Communist, and I discovered the Communist Party is listed in the telephone book. Is the Communist Party an illegal or underground movement...
...same speech: "I am proud . . . that I have never called out the armed forces of the State or nation except on errands of mercy. That type of Democratic wisdom was illustrated last year by ... Governor Murphy of Michigan"; a good word for Democratic Senator Wagner of New York: "In 1918, when I was 36 years old, I was invited to run for the Governorship of this State. ... I declined the offer. ... I did not think that I had experience and knowledge of public affairs wide enough. . . . Besides, I did not think it quite right to abandon in midstream an important...
...January 1 a New York State law goes into effect, reducing from 6% to 5% the interest that life insurance companies may charge for policy loans on new policies. TIME failed to make clear that holders of policies issued before January 1, however, will continue to pay 6% on their loans...
Speaking as "a citizen of New York" from his "own fireside" at Hyde Park he broadcast a pre-election appeal. Its theme was: "Social or economic gain made by one administration may and often does evaporate into thin air under the next. . . . We have to have reasonable continuity in liberal government to get permanent results. . . .* If American democracy ceases to move forward as a living force, seeking day and night by peaceful means to better the lot of our citizens, fascism and communism aided, unconsciously perhaps, by old-line Tory Republicanism will grow in strength...