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14 picks · 1932–1944

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Commander With a Camera - II
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PROFILE of Edward Steichen, the photographer. Hartman once said to Steichen, "Little did you know that my whole life has been a fight for the nude, for …

THE HAT ON THE ROLL-TOP DESK--II
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PROFILE of Leon Fraser, president of the classically conservative First National Bank in Wall Street. The bank has resources of about a billion dollars, …

PRODUCTION MAN--III
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PROFILE of William S. Knudsen, chief of the Office of Production Management. The members of the OPM, the supreme defense council supplementing the Advisory…

PRODUCTION MAN--II
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Profile of William S. Khudsen. In addition to Knudsen and Stettinius the commissioners were: in charge of labor, Sidney Hillman; transportation Ralph Budd,…

Jurist - III
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PROFILE of Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. One night not long ago, Frankfurter called Archibald MacLeish on the telephone and offered to read him …

Jurist - II
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PROFILE of Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter reviews the Sacco-Vancetti case and tells about Frankfurter's part in the defence of the two men.

Jurist - I
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PROFILE of Supreme Court Justice Frankfurter. Harold J. Laski, the English Political Scientist was having dinner with the Frankfurters in Cambridge. The …

THE GENERAL.
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PROFILE of General Hugh S. Johnson. Tells about the creation of the N. R. A. Mentiones members of the General's staff many of them members of the …

Fifty Years of Wall Street
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Tells of Harry Content, one of Wall Street's leading magicians'. He is one of the smoothest and fastest-working jugglers of the Street. Gives same …

The Red House
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Visit to the headquarters of the Communist Party of America located at 48-50 East Thirteenth Street, and some interesting facts about the party, the …

Jolly Bears-II
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Profile of Bernard E. Smith, the financier and the one of the best-known bears of Wall Street. Describes some of his important speculative manouevers. He …