Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President radioed to Governor Blanton Winship of Puerto Rico his happiness over the latter's escape from assassins' bullets (TIME, Aug. 1).* In Kansas City, Mo., the Secret Service arrested one John Dean, 65, for enclosing clippings of the attempt on Governor Winship's life in a letter to President Roosevelt which said: "Don't you take a chance. I feel that I must come to Washington to kill you for my country is at stake and I love my country passionately...
...Kentucky's. The source of Kentucky's heat was a pitcher of ice water. For the closing hours of the race between Governor "Happy" Chandler and Majority Leader "Dear Alben" Barkley for the latter's Senate seat were enlivened by the "poisoning" of Candidate Chandler (TIME, Aug...
...Committee exonerated Harry Hopkins of wrongdoing in predicting that 90% of all WPAsters would vote for Franklin Roosevelt if he were now running for re-election (TIME. Aug. 1). This, said the Committee, was a direct reply to a newshawk's question, not coercion of WPAsters...
...more get beat. Let me be a lesson to you." ¶ After 35 years of married life, Linda Gaddy Bilbo of Poplarville, Miss, last fortnight was divorced by Senator Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo. Grounds: Cruel and inhuman treatment of the Senator (TIME, Aug. 1). Last week she announced that she might run against him for the nomination in 1940. Said she: "I've been in politics as long as the Senator and it's time I received some benefits for my work...
...increased the number of puisne judges that may be attached to the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court, enabling it to handle an increased volume of divorces arising from the passage of the Matrimonial Causes Act which last year broadened the grounds of divorce (TIME, Aug...