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Word: choses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lively Negro romp, noisy and syncopated as some white folks believe all black worship should be. Last week for the first time Elder Michaux took his choir of 40 and his jazz orchestra of ten out of Washington to capitalize their fame. For his first appearance he chose stolid Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Happy Am I | 6/11/1934 | See Source »

Once this year the subject of Hanfstaengl has aroused sentiment among Harvard alumni, when Dr. Cutler chose him as his side on Class Day. Immediately a storm of protest broke forth but Hanfstaengl settled the situation by stating that business would interfere with his trip to the United States...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Corporation Will Decide Upon Fate of Hanfstaengl Donation | 6/8/1934 | See Source »

...field of 16, Republicans chose William Abraham Schnader, State's Attorney General, as their favorite gubernatorial candidate. In the hottest primary contest, Senator David Aiken Reed, Old Guardsman seeking renomination, beat (587,000-to-483,000) Governor Gifford Pinchot, oldtime Republican insurgent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Pennsylvania Oracle | 5/28/1934 | See Source »

That President Roosevelt would have been justified in accepting a Pinchot victory as a compliment to himself and his Administration, not even the staunchest Democrat could honestly deny. But the fact that Gifford Pinchot chose to identify, for lack of a more dramatic tag, his liberal politics with the New Deal did not alter the fact that he was still a Republican. The friendly bread-breaking with Governor Pinchot at the White House cost the President nothing. It is part of the Presidential policy to remain on good terms with Republicans of the Norris-Cutting-Johnson-Pinchot stamp, while always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Pennsylvania Oracle | 5/28/1934 | See Source »

...died six years later, and Colonel Hammond became Madison Square Garden's general manager. Like princes squabbling over an emperor's spoils, the heirs of Rickard soon fell out. Sturdy, speed-loving Richard F. Hoyt, through Hayden, Stone & Co's stockholdings, controlled the Garden. He chose a canal & railroad engineer and heavy Garden stockholder, William F. Carey, to be president of the Garden. But it soon became evident that the sports empire of Rickard was a hollow thing without Rickard to run it. Last year Carey, who had ousted Hammond as general manager, was succeeded by Colonel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Garden to Hammond | 5/14/1934 | See Source »

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