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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through the streets of Manhattan's dusky Harlem last week trundled a procession of black noise and magnificence, led by a sleek touring car on whose back perched a fattish, blinking, middle-aged Negro in a brown tweed suit whose peculiarity is that he recognizes himself as God. Behind Major J. ("Father") Divine rode a squadron of his women cultists straddling big brewery horses. Humbler worshipers followed in cars, trucks and afoot, in a line that stretched back through the hot streets almost a mile. "PEACE IS WONDERFUL!" shouted bright placards. "PEACE! PEACE!" Occasion for this celebration...
...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. Campaign contributions of 2% salary (as in the Townsend-McNutt machine over in Indiana) are expected. To compete with the enormous WPA and AAA influences for Barkley, a rural...
...Behind the opposing Barkley campaign is the Louisville Triumvirate-supposed to be the decisive force in any Democratic contest in Kentucky. This extraordinary political team is composed of Lawyer Shackleford Miller Jr.; Michael ("Mickey" j Brennan, 61, red-headed one-time saloonkeeper; and "Miz" Lennie Lee McLaughlin, 34, who looks like the Duchess of Windsor and lives in style at the Kentucky Hotel. A country belle from Breckenridge County, she got into politics via a typing job at Alben Barkley's headquarters when he ran for Governor in 1923. She runs the office of the Jefferson County Democratic executive...
Driving southward behind the heaviest prolonged artillery and air bombardment put down in Spain's two-year-old civil war, Rightist forces of Generalissimo Franco, aiming for Valencia, last week burst and flattened a Leftist balloon-shaped salient of some 200 sq. mi. in their lines, advanced to within 34 miles north-west of their goal...
...broadcasting entertainment business. It is a television technology training school. Behind its garish façade it has distinguished advisers -Inventors Dr. Greenleaf Whittier Pickard, Philo Taylor Farnsworth. M. I. T. treasurer is Socialite Sam Batchelder, onetime Harvard football and hockey star. The Institute built its own television equipment, uses a 9 in. by 12 in.-screen English receiver manufactured by Baird Television Ltd. Originally intended for student demonstrations the equipment drew so many curious visitors to the school's converted automobile showroom that M. I. T. President Porter Henderson Evans last week arranged regularly scheduled evening performances, obtained...