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Franklin Roosevelt's business appeasement policy is only nine months old but already it is a retarded infant. It was allegedly born in a confidential memo of Adolf Augustus Berle whose present job as Assistant Secretary of State does not prevent him from braintrusting all over the lot. It soon fell out of the arms of its nurse, Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins, who in his oversold Des Moines speech last February failed to give it anything but words to teethe on. Last week those who should have loved the baby most dearly, shoved it in the face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: 300 Congressmen | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...Private and confidential memo to editor. We are asked by the Admiralty to issue the following 'D' notice: In the national interests the speech of Lord Stanhope, First Lord of the Admiralty, in the Ark Royal tonight should not be published...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: TROUBLE IS BREWING | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...arrived in Washington, she personally screwed her nameplate on the door of her temporary office; spoke at a luncheon of the Republican National Committee; had a look at the Capitol; hurried down to the Interior Department to discuss "South Dakota problems"; drew doodles on a pink Senate memo pad. "This life," she exclaimed, "is a hectic whirl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: In-Between Senators | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

Smart Brussels newshawks last week secured a photostatic copy of the memo on White House stationery which the President sent to new U. S. Ambassador to Belgium Joseph E. Davies when he was about to present his credentials last month to Leopold III, King of the Belgians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: International Affection | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...morning last week, a tall, austere man sat at his desk in the open city room of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, scribbling with a thick blue pencil. Few minutes later his memo was posted on the bulletin board. It read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Sealed Envelope | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

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