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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dr. Walther Funk has been much laughed about in Germany as Economics Minister, much loved as a man. Germans call him "gentlest of all the Nazis," and consider him eminently tolerant, fairminded, honest. Short, fat as Santa Claus, just turning 50, he is the funniest after-dinner speaker in Berlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Bathtubs v. Taxes | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

> Consider renewal of Cordell Hull's power to make reciprocal trade agreements.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Undone | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

1940. Repeatedly in recent weeks Franklin Roosevelt has told callers that Cordell Hull was his choice for White House succession-repeatedly the callers have let this information leak (TIME, Dec. 18, et seq.). And each leak has given three groups of U. S. politicos a sharp case of the cramps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Saint In Serge | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

The Harvard amendment, defeated 322-49, was as follows: "While the American Student Union has no sympathy for the Russian attack on Finland and specifically condemns it as a clear act of aggression, nevertheless it does not want to see out neutrality prejudiced by those acts we consider to be...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Union Presses Censure Of Soviet Acts Despite Defeat | 1/5/1940 | See Source »

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