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...economy advocates, led by Sen. Alva B. Adams, D., Colo., had hoped to delay the vote until their numbers are bolstered by several absentees who favor the House-approved $725,000,000 relief bill and would give them the margin for victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 1/27/1939 | See Source »

Handsome, 42-year-old Assen Jordanoff has never flown around the world, but in the last few years he has collected lots of money. In his early U. S. years he was barnstormer, instructor (he gave a ground lesson to the late Thomas Alva Edison), movie consultant and test pilot. By 1929 he was able to set down his flying notions in good plain English in newspapers and magazines. In 1932 he turned out a book, Flying, and How To Do It, that sold mightily for a dollar. On the strength of this, Funk & Wagnalls engaged him to write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Pithy Primer | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...Colorado, Senator Alva B. Adams (80% New Dealer lightly marked for Purging) was nominated without opposition. His opponent in November: Republican Archibald A. Lee of Denver. Renominated for Governor was crude Democrat Teller Ammons, to face Republican Ralph L. Carr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Nominations for Nine | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...Llewellyn Park. N. J.. Mrs. John Eyre Sloane, daughter (Madeleine) of the late great Thomas Alva Edison, sister of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison, announced herself a Republican candidate for nomination to a seat in Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Conservative Party | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

...sick room at Rochester, Minn. several weeks ago,* James Roosevelt received Writer Walter Davenport of Collier's to reply through him to Writer Alva Johnston's article "Jimmy Got It" in the Satevepost (TIME, July 4). Last week and this, Collier's published the Roosevelt reply, "I'm Glad You Asked Me," in two installments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Salesman's Reply | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

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