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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bill McKinley's time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THESE ARE THE DAYS | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

...Bill McKinley's glorious...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THESE ARE THE DAYS | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

...rule as laid down in His theocratic handbook, Deuteronomy (24:1): When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, then it cometh to pass, if she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he writeth her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house. . . . Today, as in ancient times, a good Orthodox Jew or his agent obtains a religious divorce by handing his wife or her agent a get (writ of divorcement) before a rabbi. But many another Jew gets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: No to Agunahs | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

...candidate was incompetent, refused to endorse him. Unexpected opposition came from influential Ferris Branolsky, a tireless fanatic in tracing the smells from big receiverships. The first obstacle to be removed was old Senator Mayne, who died of a stroke in a heroic but futile filibuster against a routine bill to pay foreign bond holders in present devalued currency. It took a good deal of very practical politics, but the appointment assuring Charley Squires' $100,000 was droned out unopposed in the hectic closing session of the Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Practical Politics | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

Southern California's track team: a dual meet with Stanford, 74½-to-56½, in which Southern California's two star pole-vaulters, Bill Sefton and Earle Meadows, tied for a new world's record of 14 ft. 8½ in.; at Palo Alto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, May 17, 1937 | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

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