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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jockeying. Around Happy and his wife in the State government at Frankfort are a hard-hitting group of officials of their own age. Lieutenant Governor (next year's candidate for Governor) is Keen Johnson, 41, former newshawk and writer for Happy's campaigns. Judge Brady Stewart of Paducah is Happy's official manager, but Johnson, State Finance Director Dan Talbott and State Highway Commissioner Bob Humphreys are the active jockeys. Knowing well that behind Barkley would be all the power of Federal patronage, they organized the State's 7,500 jobholders into an efficient Chandler machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENTUCKY: The Roosevelt Handicap | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

...tail" in their stables. Inside, two troopers raped her while others held her. Arrested and brought to trial month ago, two troopers were given sentences of four years each, a third sentenced to 22 months in prison. Learning that the girl was with child, Dr. Bourne decided that the age of the victim, whose name by agreement was left undisclosed last week, and the nature of the attack offered better than ordinary grounds for exhibiting the limitations of the law. Accordingly, with the consent of the girl's parents, he performed the operation seven weeks ago, then asked Scotland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Test Case | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

...Specifications: age, 48; height, 5 ft. 9 in.; weight, 155; hair, black & thinning; sport, golf (usual score: 95-100): wife; son, 17; daughters, 15, 13. Home, Flushing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Friend of Perkins | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

...barrels (passed by smiling Pat, Mike & Molly) labeled "Flour-NOT Pork." As a slogan he uses a line from one of his songs: "Please pass the biscuits, Pappy!" When people interrupt his speeches to ask where Texas will get the money to pay $41,000,000 yearly in old-age pensions, he says to his musicians: "Strike up a tune, boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Flour Salesman | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

...stretching his temperature cycle to one of 28 hours. Kleitman had much difficulty, his periods of wakefulness and sleepiness and his temperature cycle clinging to the 24-hour schedule. This indicated that ability to break away from the 24-hour rhythm, while not impossible, varies with different individuals. Perhaps age is a factor, since Kleitman is 43 and Richardson only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cave Men | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

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