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By last week 20 of the pioneers had formed a syndicate, prepared to stake out their claims in Mexico City. Their proposal: if Avila Camacho would undo some liberal reforms of his great & good friend ex-President Cardenas, they would give chicle-growing Mexico $100,000,000 to chew on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Strange Bedfellows | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

>Stately, handsome John A. Hastings, promotive vanguard of the great bonanza. A onetime New York State Senator (at 22, the youngest in the Legislature's history), an oldtime crony of James J. Walker, unsuccessful candidate (although Father Coughlin backed him) for U. S. Representative in 1936, Hastings reportedly sought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Strange Bedfellows | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

> That a trustee (later identified by another trustee as Dr. John H. Whiticar) had been elected to the board after his sponsor argued that he had a string of Ocean City restaurants and fishing boats worth $1,000,000 and "we should put him on the board with the hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Money-Changers at Temple | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

The President had hoped to fish for striped bass, but the cold, blustery rain continued for most of the week; there was no fishing. It was easier to withstand than the Nazi rain that was falling on London, on Coventry. Even more serious for England was the war Nazi Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY,THE CONGRESS,FOREIGN RELATIONS: F.D.R. Goes Fishing | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

Few believed that the President had just gone fishing for bass in the Potomac and Chesapeake Bay. Last week the nation waited to see what he and Mr. Jackson brought back to Washington.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY,THE CONGRESS,FOREIGN RELATIONS: F.D.R. Goes Fishing | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

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