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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wily five Dink Stovers. As co-owner of both the Roosevelt and Bienville hotels, president of the Board of Docks (main employment centre of New Orleans), commissioner of police and fire, president of the Port of New Orleans, and most important, as one of the triumvirate (with Leche and dark, toughly shrewd Mayor Robert Maestri of New Orleans) which took control of the racy Long machine when the Kingfish died, Weiss was apparently beyond reach. He had won a victory over the Government in 1936 when the New Deal dropped charges of income tax evasion against him, on grounds that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Rats In the Pantry | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...there is vegetation on Mars is a fairly plausible assumption. The reddish hue of the planet used to be ascribed to foliage of that color. A more favored explanation nowadays is chemical absorption of oxygen in the soil-that is, oxidation or "rusting" of the Martian terrain. But the dark patches on the planet's surface grow heavier and more distinct in winter, change from blue-green in summer to chocolate brown in winter. These changes strongly suggest vegetation. The potent chemical compound called chlorophyll is present in all the green plants of Earth, but spectroscopic analysis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Beyond Earth | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

Since there is a better view of Mars this time from the Earth's southern hemisphere than from the northern, Dr. Slipher was last week posted at Harvard's observatory near Bloemfontein in South Africa. He discovered that Solis Lacus, a dark spot on Mars as big as the U. S. and located near the Martian south pole, had assumed a shape never before seen, or at least not in the last half-century. This change of shape, reasoned Old Marster Slipher, could be plausibly ascribed to the growth of fresh vegetation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Beyond Earth | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...wrote on spiritualism and phrenology as well as political economy. Yellow Bird (John Rollin Ridge), half-Cherokee son of a Georgia plantation owner, contributed the West's most famous folk tale in The Life & Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit. Most talented woman writer was tall, dark-eyed Ina Donna Coolbrith, sweetheart of the writing colony, who kept her past a dark secret because she was the niece of Mormon prophet Joseph Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Golden Era | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

Both the President and Secretary Hull had used dark forebodings of crisis again this summer in Europe as arguments for more latitude in the law. But the House took last week's developments in Poland and elsewhere just the other way. Despite strong pleas by Speaker Bankhead and Majority Leader Rayburn ("Is there any immorality in our shipping arms to a little weak country so it can defend itself?"), the House decided not to turn Franklin Roosevelt entirely loose. The Vorys amendment carried again by 214 to 173, the whole bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Half a Halter | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

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