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Governor Floyd Bjornstjerne Olson, kingpin of Minnesota's Farmer-Labor Party, months ago laid his plans to get into the U. S. Senate when Minnesota's Republican Thomas D. Schall should come up for re-election next autumn. Suddenly, last fortnight, a Senate seat was dropped into Governor Olson's lap when Senator Schall died after an automobile accident (TIME, Dec. 30). Farmer-Laborite Olson had only to resign as Governor and let his Lieutenant Governor appoint him to the Senate. Being a shrewd politician he knew that such a maneuver would look...
...first victory of a candidate east of the Rocky Mountains who campaigned openly for old Dr. Francis E. Townsend's plan for $200-a-month pensions for all good citizens over 60 (TIME, Nov. 4 et ante). Hundreds of Congressmen could foresee the ominous days next autumn when they would have to stand for or against the rising tide of Townsendism...
...Dictator and the League. Ignorance was obvious on all sides. Many M.P.s sat up to listen as though hearing for the first time much which they might have read weeks and months ago in the Press. As if for the first time, the House seemed to learn that last autumn Haile Selassie offered to cede territory to win Peace*; that Italy has juridical claims upon British and French tolerance of her intrusion of Ethiopia based on the treaty of 1906 and the exchange of notes of 1925; and finally that in the past, when British aid has been offered...
...Last autumn Columbia's President Nicholas Murray Butler surveyed the intricacies of modern education, thought of his own simple school days in Elizabeth, N. J., emitted a nostalgic lament: "It has become customary to abuse and sneer at the little red schoolhouse of two generations ago, but if that little red schoolhouse was presided over by a teacher of rich and warm personality ... it was an almost ideal educational instrumentality...
Helen Hayes' father was a man named Brown who did a number of things, none of them very profitably. For a brief time he worked as a clerk in the Washington Patent Office. His daughter was born the first autumn of the 20th Century on Washington's P Street, Northwest. Her education was at parochial schools. Abetted by a mother with theatrical ambitions, Helen Brown made her Broadway debut in 1909 in Old Dutch. Elders like Lew Fields, Vernon Castle and John Bunny crowded her out of the press notices. Not until five years later...