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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Best defense of his character that George Berry could think of at the moment was to shout down: "I was once within three votes of being nominated Vice President of the U. S."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Berry's Biggest | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

As a horse trainer, Townsend sometimes races his own horses, sometimes goes on shares with other owners. He travels with the horses, in a truck. His affection is not for the bigtime tracks but for the half-mile county fair circuit in Pennsylvania. Ohio and Illinois which horsemen know as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Horse Painting | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

Fearful lest it should leave behind in its dilapidated quarters some of its impeccable character, the Times pondered long before moving, chose a site little farther away than its staid Editor Geoffrey Dawson could throw a handful of type. Its new six-floor 18th-Century style building did not startle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Times's Change | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

After the War Mr. Chester's Greenwich, Conn, neighbor, now Mrs. Marjorie Post Close Hutton Davies, persuaded him to enter her Postum Cereal Co. as assistant treasurer. By 1924 he was president, and it was under his direction that Postum swelled until it became General Foods Corp. with some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Coalition Congress | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

THIS IS MY STORY-Eleanor Roosevelt-Harper ($3). Offered as "probably the most fearless and revealing of all modern autobiographies," this one is also remarkable for the fact-rare among wives' memoirs-that it contains nothing to embarrass the husband. First published serially in The Ladies' Home Journal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Dec. 13, 1937 | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

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