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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city council of Lynchburg, Va., about to name a new WPA-built stadium for Senator Carter Glass, recalled his distaste for New Deal spending, gave him a gold medal instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTFS: Hectares and Heart Fire | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...extending distributive justice to the underdog, boss government built its cadres of loyalists," Marx said in explanation of this American phenomenon. Its specialty has been "competitive modulation between individual clients and agencies vested with formal authority." The economic basis of Boss government has been "in the privilege market and the control of placement opportunities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Marx Sees Decline of Machine Domination in City Politics | 11/4/1938 | See Source »

...good, for the Elis have been winning consistently, and the Tigers, while losing to the strong Army and Navy teams, are a potentially powerful group. But Harvard is different. On paper, from last year's records, the Crimson should be weak. Their undefeated record shows how Jaako has built that team...

Author: By Caleb Foote, | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/1/1938 | See Source »

...better name. Last year there was Sherman, with his 50 second quarters, and Dick and his good half-miles. Roswell is the last of the line, and Jaako says he is typical of his family, "for they're all great fightters and great workers, and all have built themselves into good runners...

Author: By Caleb Foote, | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/1/1938 | See Source »

...smart Negro-born in the tobacco-market town of Ahoskie, N. C. in 1882, graduated by Pittsburgh University in 1906, from its law school in 1909, he grubbed at the law until he got stock in the Pittsburgh Courier for drawing its charter, later got control and built its circulation up from 50,000 to a peak of 187,000 by plugging Equal Rights, Joe Louis, Haile Selassie and Franklin Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Black Purge | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

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