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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...competed in the Gold Cup class with two white craft named Imp. In 1929 he won the Gold Challenge Cup; in 1930 made a record for the fastest 30-mi. heat in that class (61.5 m.p.h.). Also in 1930 he was awarded the medal of the Regatta Circuit Riders' Club for having done most for motorboating. Racer Hoyt has a reputation among his opponents as a daring driver, a "grand sport." His mechanic says: "There are only two positions on his throttle: tight closed and wide open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Cord at the Stick (Cont'd) | 12/19/1932 | See Source »

...wrathfully ordered them to check their weapons with the court clerk. Witness after witness at the trial testified that Kaplan's men had "socked" them for speaking out at union meetings, had even threatened them with death. Evidence was brought out to show that a non-union cinema circuit was comparatively unmolested by Kaplan so long as it bought projection equipment from Kaplan's firm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Cinema Clean-Up | 12/12/1932 | See Source »

...modernist liberality. The election of Dr. Beaven would cause no such quiverings U. S. Churchmen know him well as an evangelical leader, on the safe side despite his joining with other Federal Council committee members in approving the use of contraceptives. Born in Idaho, son of a British circuit rider. Baptist Beaven went to Shurtleff College (Alton, Ill.), studied for the ministry on the Pacific Coast while earning a living chopping wood and scraping barnacles from boats in Puget Sound. He studied at Rochester Theological Seminary on a scholarship was graduated in 1909 to become pastor of Rochester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mouthpiece Muffled? | 12/12/1932 | See Source »

...Kopp 3L, argued for the defendant R. E. Kopp 3L, and M. M. Schuitzer 3L, represented counsel for the plaintiff. In addition to Justice Maltble, the Honerable C. J. Dunn. Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, and the Honorable J. M. Morton, Jr. '91, United States Circuit Judge attended...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BRANDEIS CLUB WINS AMES AWARD SEMI-FINAL DEBATE | 11/18/1932 | See Source »

Jersey City, Newark, Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Mineola, again Manhattan, Poughkeepsie and finally Hyde Park, to vote and wait for returns was the circuit on which Franklin Delano Roosevelt wound up his four-month campaign last week. In each he smiled his ear-to-ear smile, waved his long arms, made brief inconsequential speeches that added no last-minute proposition to the issues. Frank Hague, New Jersey's boss, proudly exhibited the candidate to thundering thousands. Thirty-five hundred Republicans-for-Roosevelt heard him, along with Owen D. Young, from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Homing Roosevelt | 11/14/1932 | See Source »

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