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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Little wonder was it when Franklin Roosevelt came to Washington with his New Deal that Pierce Butler was regarded as head hatchet-man for the conservatives. The score-sheet bore out this feeling: On the 14 major New Deal Cases, Pierce Butler voted 13 times against, once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Solid Man | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...hang up on Annenberg services throughout the U. S. At that point a Federal judge persuaded Attorney Campbell to let the network stay in operation three more days while he heard arguments. This week thousands of bookies, millions of betters wondered what now. Said an employe of one racing sheet: "Tell 'em not to worry; they'll get their tips. You had prohibition, but you got your whiskey, didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Disconnected? | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Continental Steel Corp., small maker of wire and sheet steel products, last week reported that it had set aside $150,000 (the equivalent of six weeks' to two months' earnings) as a "reserve for contingencies." The contingency: "The war in Europe, together with a domestic business improvement, has brought about an inflationary condition that could be rapidly reversed if peace negotiations were effected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Boom Note | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Radio News, neither pulp, puff-sheet nor good red herring, is one of the Ziff-Davis group of magazines for mail-order scientists (Popular Aviation, Popular Photography, etc.). Managing Editor of Radio News is Karl Kopetzky, who prides himself on having learned journalism from Walter Winchell. During the early war days, Editor Kopetzky listened to Murrow in London, Grandin in Paris, Jordan in Berlin, etc., was struck with the costly time devoted by U. S. broadcasters to innocent prattle about London weather, etc. With the unfailing suspicion of a Winchell-bred newshawk, he dispatched an undercover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Double Talk | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Biggest is the Wacht im Westen, which resembles the Frankfurter Zeitung; smallest the Armee-Kurznachrichten, a single half-size sheet of Army notices. The Air Force has its own paper, Der Adler von Friesland (The Frisian Eagle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Westwall Dailies | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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