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Copeland, Senator from New York with whom he has long been on the outs, as a Democratic candidate for Mayor next autumn against the President's good friend, Socialist-Republican-Fusionist Fiorello LaGuardia. The President replied: "Ha! ha! ha!" When this was reported to New York's bumbling Senator, he cracked back: "I'm delighted if the idea gave him a chance to laugh. If he got enjoyment, that's fine. He needs it. As a health matter it's a good thing to laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Unexpected Fishing Trip | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

...week George Pepperdine was bubbling with plans for a new enterprise to be called George Pepperdine College. He has 34 acres of land on Los Angeles' flat south side, plans for ten buildings, of which four, low and glass-sided, will be up and ready for use this autumn. Architect John M. Cooper last week filed with Los Angeles authorities plans and specifications for the first, an $85,000 administration centre. Quietly directing operations from an office in Los Angeles' Chamber of Commerce Building, Mr. Pepperdine has already lined up a president, Batsell Baxter of Tennessee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Colleges | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

...Church in time. Tall, lofty of brow, matter-of-fact, he is a shrewd master of church and business law, a rigid disciplinarian who will take no back talk from any Father Coughlin. Indeed, observers felt that, though the Church had successfully liquidated the "Coughlin affair" of last autumn (TIME, Aug. 17 .et seq.) by giving the radio priest plenty of rope, it was putting a strong man in Detroit especially to prevent any repetition of Coughlinism. Archbishop Mooney is modest, good-natured, affable in dealing with churchmen of other faiths. In Rochester he drives his own automobile, plays golf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: 17th Archdiocese | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

...cleaned up the glut in short order. When last year's Drought flooded the market with cattle that could no longer be fed, the chains managed to increase beef sales 34% in the middle of summer, a poor beef season. The same thing was done with turkeys last autumn. From this type of practical relief the chain stores have gained most of their new-found farmer support. Asserting that the big chains can do more in such emergencies than the Government, President Park declares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Chainsters' Tussle | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

...first Looking in to Chapman's Homer", and "Odo to Autumn," by John Keats have been unearthed from the Preasure Room along with "Amours de Voyage" by Arthur Clough. "Hymn before sunrise" by Coleridge and Rudyard Kipling's "Recall" are also shown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Manuscripts, First Editions by English Poets of Nineteenth Century Feature Widener Display | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

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