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...Securities Act. These amendments would abolish the liabilities of officers and directors for false statements made on information received from, accountants and other experts; would limit the liability of underwriters to their share of issues underwritten; would shorten the period in which suits might be brought; would require proof that misleading statements had actually led to losses by investors; would prevent blackmail and nuisance suits by requiring litigants to post bond and pay costs if they lost. This amounted to an indication on behalf of the President that business was to get reasonable consideration, not merely to be the butt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Roosevelt Week: May 14, 1934 | 5/14/1934 | See Source »

...haired man raided a bank, wounded five people, got away with $17,299. Said the assistant cashier: 'It was Dillinger without any question." ¶In Mooresville, Ind. Dillinger's home town, two residents reported seeing Dillinger in a car. Federal agents blocked all roads, donned bullet proof vests, took machine guns, raided the Dillinger farm, found Father Dillinger mending a fence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dillinger's Ghost | 5/14/1934 | See Source »

Among the books we can cite in proof of Hitler's role of servant to German capitalism, we should like to mention the following: "Germany Puts the Clock Back," (N.Y. 1933) by Edgar Ansel Mowrer, fifteen years the Berlin correspondent of the Chicago Daily News; Konrad Heiden: "Geschichte des Nationalismus," Berlin 1932; Paul Kosck: "Modern Germany," (Chicago 1933) in the University of Chicago Training of Citizens series; "Nazifuhrer sehen dich an," (Paris, 1934); the first and second "Brown Books," the second as yet not translated; and Adolf Hitler: "Mein Kampf," (38th printing, Munich, 1933) especially pages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NSL Study | 5/10/1934 | See Source »

...jail could hold and police everywhere were hunting him. In November they caught him coming out of a doctor's office in Chicago but he drove away through a hail of bullets. He began raiding small-town police stations in Indiana for arms and bullet-proof vests while his bank robberies multiplied. Then with his plunder he dropped out of sight until last January when officers arrested him and three of his gang, quietly vacationing in Tucson, Ariz. (TIME, Feb. 5). Chapter No. 2 ended with his return by air to Crown Point, Ind. to face a murder charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bad Man at Large | 5/7/1934 | See Source »

...fact the presumptive cases include thousands of veterans who can trace their disabilities directly to service origin, and present unimpeachable proof thereof. But variations in post-War employment conditions, loss of records through death of physicians, inability to locate witnesses known 15 years ago, and other normal factors complicate the problem of proof for many men. The regulations adopted under the 1933 Economy Act very virtuously read that the benefit of a reasonable doubt, on such proof as was presented, should go to the veteran; but other clauses so restricted the application of this rule that its interpretation resulted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 30, 1934 | 4/30/1934 | See Source »

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