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...Fighting Britches") Cone; derailed at the last minute was Liberty Publisher Bernarr Macfadden by Townsendite Jerry Carter. Mr. Carter finished second to silent Incumbent Charles Oscar Andrews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Trend | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...campaign by issuing $1 stock certificates which bore the redemption clause (and a grammatical howler): "When elected, this certificate will entitle the holder to have luncheon or dinner as my guest at the Mansion." For Senator on the Democratic ticket: six, including Incumbent Charles O. Andrews, Governor Fred Preston Cone, Charles Francis ("Socker") Coe, author of Me-Gangster, and Bernarr Macfadden, publisher of Liberty, True Story Magazine, Physical Culture, True Love and Romance. Declared Mr. Macfadden: "Teeming vitality is of course important, but a Government that robs the citizens of their liberties can still take the joy out of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Local Affairs | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...also explained a new torpedo design which would make a better, larger, and more efficacious hole in the side of a ship by utilizing the idiosyncrasies of rapidly-expanding high-explosives. A cone extends into the rose of the torpedo and results in an explosive effect like that of an armor-piercing shell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Explosive Tech Professor Electrifies Chemical Club With Blasting Speech | 4/17/1940 | See Source »

...News (which at the height of the Florida Boom led all U. S. newspapers in advertising lineage) headlined G-Man John Edgar Hoover, ineffectively sounding off against the local toleration of gamblers, gangsters, brothels; and Governor Fred Cone in Tallahassee, effectively commanding Miami politicos to close down the gaming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: Pleasure Dome | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

...called the place Trinidad (trinity). Thus had Professor Morison imagined the scene before he followed in the Admiral's wake: "About five on Sunday morning . . . when the faintest grey of dawn appears in the east, an ancient pilot stationed in the forechains of La Galante sees a black cone on the horizon pricking up into the dome of paling stars. He climbs cautiously to the foretop to make certain, and sings out Albricias! Que tenemos tierra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Rediscovery | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

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