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The White House was kept informed on the bill's progress but President Roosevelt was much too busy to heed Governor Eccles' plaintive pleas for moral support. All Mr. Eccles knew was that something drastic was happening to his bill. Indeed, the subcommittee was so secretive that banker-baiting newspapers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Eccles into Glass | 7/15/1935 | See Source »

The frantic pleas of national defense urged by such jingoes as Senator Hiram Johnson, rest on no secure factual foundation. Most naval strategists recognize that the United States is practically impregnable. Successful Japanese action in the New World is predicated on a naval force of such colossal proportions that no...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SAMMY AND NIPPO | 6/19/1935 | See Source »

France's departure from the gold standard will bring further instability in the foreign exchange market, and probably increase the number of players in the game of blind man's buff, now limited to secretly-operated committees in America and England. Foreign trade will dry up into an even smaller...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WALKING THE PLANK | 5/31/1935 | See Source »

Of the eight persons jailed for complicity in the eternal ramifications of the Stavisky case (TIME, Jan. 15, 1934, et seq.), none attracted greater sympathy than Arlette Stavisky, because of her beauty and because few serious students of the case believed that slippery Alexandre ("Sacha") Stavisky was the sort of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Return of Arlette | 5/13/1935 | See Source »

Not only do patients assume the status of guinea pigs in this war of the gargles but the nurses are strained to the breaking point with intricate detail. Four times a day, they must see that over thirty throats come into contact with the proper fluid. Charts, vocal instruments, and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 3/13/1935 | See Source »

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