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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into the doctor's lap. Since Smith refused to have Hearst, who wanted nomination for U. S. Senator, on the same ticket, someone suggested Copeland. He proved a surprising vote-getter, for, like elephants, mothers never forget; they had not forgotten all the worthy advice Dr. Copeland as columnist and health commissioner had given them on the care of babies. He was elected, re-elected in 1928, re-elected in 1934, for though Jim Farley and Franklin Roosevelt did not love Dr. Copeland, they did not dare challenge the potency of the bedside manner in politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: For Job No. 3 | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

Visible among the babbling throng of spectators were the 44¼-carat Hope Diamond and its wan owner, Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean. Also on view were the New York Herald Tribune's fashionable chitchat columnist, Lucius Beebe; Ward Morehouse of the New York Sun; Dr. Kingsley Roberts, Manhattan Surgeon; Mrs. Paul T. Mayo of Denver, her sister Mrs. Stanley Harris of Washington, Mrs, William McKinnon of Paris, Eloise Staats of Greenwich, Conn., who raises horses on her Colorado ranch, and a host of other socialites. There was so much alcoholic garrulity in the packed house that the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Central City, 1937 | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

...aviator." The House Naval Affairs Committee prepared to consider legislation which would prohibit the Navy from undertaking costly searches for lost aircraft unless the latter were in regular commercial service or on missions of "unquestionable scientific value." Pilot Dick Merrill, who flies the Atlantic by dead reckoning, and Manhattan Columnist Mark Hellinger were bluntly refused permission to make a round-the-world flight. Snapped Assistant Secretary of Commerce Colonel John Monroe Johnson: "From now on no individual will be permitted to take off on any ocean or round-the-world flight that smacks of a stunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Search Abandoned | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

Stage-managed by his Washington press-agent was a luncheon the following day at which Mr. Girdler carried on for the benefit of a few handpicked newshawks. Earlier efforts by reporters to arrange an open press conference collapsed when Mr. Girdler is said to have learned that Columnist Heywood Broun planned to attend. Even at his private conference Mr. Girdler got into hot water. Calling the Mediation Board "incompetent and unfair," he asked: "Who is Taft? He is a man who likes to talk about the things his father did. Who is Ed McGrady? He is Fannie Perkins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Steel Front | 7/5/1937 | See Source »

...Columnist Dorothy Thompson (whose husband Sinclair Lewis got his first honorary degree last year from his alma mater Yale) this year became an LL.D. of Russell Sage College (Troy, N. Y.), an L.H.D. of University of Syracuse and of St. Lawrence University (Canton, N. Y.). Columnist Thompson was the commencement speaker at all three colleges. Abreast with her for first place on the 1937 kudos list was solemn Critic Van Wyck Brooks, whose Pulitzer Prizewinner, The Flowering of New England, brought him Litt.D.'s from Bowdoin, Columbia and Tufts. Vassar's Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos Jun. 28, 1937 | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

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