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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chester and Mr. Weir, they must be accused either of being unacquainted with the facts or else of trying to conceal them in order to put the best possible appearance on their own activities. At best, they are the victims of the worst fallacies of wishful thinking. If their statements are taken at face value by the people of this country, a false and dangerous sense of security will be created. Mr. Chester and Mr. Weir would do the U.S. a great service by giving attention to piloting their own corporations through the troubled days that lie ahead, and ceasing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SMOKE SCREEN | 10/31/1939 | See Source »

With a typical cluster of Alumni 'sour-grapes', Egan concludes that the 1939 Harvard Varsity is the worst in history as "the logical result of Bingham's policy." There have been better Harvard teams, and despite Dave Egan, there WILL be better Harvard teams. But as long as Bill Bingham, and not Dave Egan, rules in the H.A.A., those teams will be non-professional, idealistically amateur...Thank...

Author: By B. S. W., | Title: SPORTS of the CRIMSON | 10/31/1939 | See Source »

...talked for the best part of two hours of the iniquities of the Poles and about Herr Hitler's and his own desire for friendship with England. ... I augured the worst from the fact that he was in a position at such a moment to give me so much of his time. . . . He could scarcely have afforded at such a moment to spare time in conversation if it did not mean that everything down to the last detail was now ready for action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: White Papers: More Good Reading | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...controversialist. One station (WIRE of Indianapolis) has already barred Father Coughlin, but the showdown on all 51 may not come for some months. And before then there may be a new choosing-up of sides. Said the liberal, anti-Coughlin Christian Century last week: "We regard this as the worst possible way of dealing with his brand of demagoguery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: No Picketing | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...Robert Gair, Warehouse Magnate Irving Bush. Up to Sept. 15, 1939 it had done $434,333,000 worth of business, eight of its jobs exceeding $5,000,000 apiece, 126 running from $1-$5,000,000. Nineteen twenty-nine was its best year (gross $43,717,000), 1933 its worst since 1909 (gross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSTRUCTION: Business Builds | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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