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...therefore, Mr. Roosevelt thinks he has on his hands just the old struggle to guard the treasury from pork-barrel raids, he is wrong. And what, as a politician, he does about that when he finds it out, should certainly prove instructive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 3/10/1934 | See Source »

...which had marked the national contingents. Delegates had given respectful attention to Dr. Harold Tobin, Dartmouth League Critic, slight, dark, nervous, and bespectacled, who clung desperately to the back of his chair, swayed from side to side, and assured the league that its critics, charging it with futility, were wrong, to be ignored. Dr. Tobin further delivered an outspoken if almost inaudible attack on Secretary Wallace, saying that the secretary desires an impossibility when he asks for economic relations without political entanglements...

Author: By John F. Spencer, | Title: N. E. MODEL LEAGUE OPENS ASSEMBLIES | 3/9/1934 | See Source »

What happened to the Revere high school? Is it supposed to be a place for study or a place for loving and for girls to go wrong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beside The Point | 3/8/1934 | See Source »

...noon sun in a grey sky found Lieut. Howard M. McCoy piloting an observation plane with 211 Ib. of mail in her belly from Newark to Cleveland. Suddenly something went wrong with the lubrication. The motor burned out and Lieut. McCoy was forced down into a cow pasture at Dishtown, Pa. He slung the 211 Ib. of mail on his back, slogged two miles through the snow into Woodland, where he handed his mail over to the postmistress to be forwarded by train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Army's First Week | 3/5/1934 | See Source »

...trained to step into the breach (TIME, Feb. 19). Their words were airily swept aside as sour grapes. But last week a sense of shocked surprise ran through the land. Citizens began to wonder if, after all, the commercial operators were not right, if President Roosevelt was not wrong on his airmail policy. Newspaper editors wailed loudly that the toll of the Army's first week with the airmail was too high a price to pay for "purging" commercial aviation of some wrongdoing that was not yet satisfactorily proved. At the Capitol the White House was accused of "legalized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Army's First Week | 3/5/1934 | See Source »

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