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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sawdust Trail. Only one other prominent New Deal politician has a record that in one respect can compare with that of Governor Earle: he and Franklin Roosevelt were born with silver spoons in their mouths and brought up in the stodgiest of rich, conservative societies, Roosevelt among the squires of Dutchess County, Earle on Philadelphia's "Main Line,"* among Pews, Biddies, Cadwaladers, Morrises and other families found in the Social Register and the upper brackets of the income...
...William Christian ("Bill") Bullitt. Thereafter his march down the sawdust trail broke into a run. With his Main Line friends he was in disgrace, but soon he was making other friends, Oilman Joseph F. Guffey, boss of Pennsylvania's Demo-cratic machine; David Leo Lawrence, a practical politician born in Pittsburgh's Old Point section down near the conflux of the Monongahela and the Allegheny; Julius David Stern, radical Jewish publisher of Philadelphia's Record. These gentlemen could hardly help noticing Convert Earle since he plunked down $35,000 to help them try, and almost succeed...
...least 30 years the name of Manhattan-born Sculptor Jacob Epstein has made news in London and enraged conservative Britons (TIME, March 25, 1935 et ante). Last week after nearly two years of comparative obscurity, the head fell off one of his earliest statues and slapped Sculptor Epstein right into the headlines again...
...newshawks waited patiently and 310 artists, many of them nationally prominent, nervously bit their nails. Fortnight ago somebody jogged Secretary Ickes' elbow and the jury's award was approved without comment. The mural contract, a $5,500 job to be completed within a year, went to Manhattan-born Muralist Louis Bouch...
...Author, Elliot Harold Paul, 46, looks like a Frenchman but was Massachusetts-born & bred, left his job as newshawk to go to France with the A.E.F. as a private, came out as a sergeant. In 1925 he went back to France, worked on the Paris editions of the Chicago Tribune, New York Herald, with Eugene Jolas founded the literary left-wing review transition (TIME, July 13). An accomplished musician, Author Paul is an authority on the clavichord and harpsichord, is now working on a "musical novel" (his eighth) in Manhattan. He hopes to get back to Iviza "some...