Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Career: Homer Truett Bone is a round-shouldered, kindly little man with a gloomy viewpoint. In discussing the state of the world, he is apt to remark: "This is a dark and sombre picture." Politicians, whose squabbling Homer Bone heartily dislikes, do not understand why Bone, of all men, should be afflicted by melancholy. Indisputably his State's most popular politician, he amassed 243,682 votes in the Democratic primary this year to 196,876 for all his opponents. He spends no money in the primary, except for gas and oil, and has just returned a $500 check from...
...sent a message to Minnesota to help Governor Elmer Benson (Farmer-Labor) stem the onslaught of Liberal Republican Harold Stassen (see p. 10), another to Pennsylvania to help George Earle toward the Senate, another to California to help Sheridan Downey; interviewed a series of political callers including dark-skinned Publisher Robert Lee Vann of the Pittsburgh Courier, supposed mentor of Pennsylvania's Negro vote...
...Dark Rapture (Mr. & Mrs. Armand Denis; TIME...
...shells for this afternoon's race are very evenly matched but the dope around the boathouse is that Rowe will take the race with Wagner, Dean and Comstock close behind him. Comstock who won last year by outrowing the famed Spike Chaco is a dark horso according to Harvey Love...
...five suits reflect Morey's opinion of his fellow man, with the Scientist (a purple card) in first place. The other suits with their colors are, in order of diminishing value, the Idealist (red). the Judge (pink, green or yellow), the Banker (dark gray) and the Advertiser (black...