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...labors abroad to hurl fear and respect into the hearts of Democracy's home-hugging suitors. It mattered not that the welcoming party was synthetic, that the Candidate's welcome to Indiana was rather warmer than its welcome to him. Now was beginning one of the earliest, boldest, most determined campaigns ever made for a major U. S. nomination. Paul McNutt, with truly towering modesty, declared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: White-Haired Boy | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

...know that Jesse warn't really a bad man and a killer. What could a feller do when them blasted railroads robbed you of your lawful own, and then killed your poor old mother? And mebbe it's just because he was the cussin'est, dad-blame-dest, boldest buckaroo which ever come from Missouri...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/3/1939 | See Source »

...before Senate Committee for public inspection, last week went the three highest appointees of Franklin Roosevelt's Fourth New Deal. Before blinking flashlights, surrounded by a battery of anti-New Deal Senators, the new Supreme Court Justice, new Attorney General, new Secretary of Commerce-three men of the boldest New Deal stripe -made their bows to the nation. Their confirmation was a foregone conclusion, but they and their opponents knew that the impression that they gave might well affect the future course of politics. Each put on an able, articulate, characteristic show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Flashlit Faces | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

Mayor T. Frank Hayes is a Democrat, one of the biggest and boldest ever seen in Connecticut. His arrest, along with his controller, Daniel J. Leary, his secretary, Thomas P. Kelley, and several other Waterbury officials, resulted from Mr. Leary's failure (by 33 votes) to get re-elected last year. The Republican who got in soon told the State's Attorney, who told the grand jury, that Hayes, Leary & Co., "a small but powerful, ruthless and corrupt group of men." had been running Waterbury's affairs "for personal financial gain and political advancement" at a cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Connecticut | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

...last moment the German chancellor--who had been bluntly told that the British and French war machines were being mobilized to fight him--stepped down from the boldest and most defiant undertaking of armed force in modern histor

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 9/29/1938 | See Source »

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