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Last week, the State had Queen Helen on trial for grand theft, soliciting a bribe and conspiracy. Her co-defendants were Convict Weinblatt and easy-going Pete Werner. Most damaging testimony was offered by the trio's accuser, Gertrude Davey, proprietor of Hollywood's Lon Chancy Jr. Cafe. Red-haired Mrs. Davey told of going to Pete Werner's law office and paying Queen Helen a $250 installment of the $500 she was told it would cost to recover her revoked liquor license from the State Board of Equalization. Queen Helen, she said, boasted that she controlled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Queen Helen | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

Sirs: TIME being a progressive mag, you'll be interested in this splendid shot for publicity. You report under "People" in your last issue that a Delta Kappa Epsilon neophyte secured Governor Davey's sig on his own shorts. How so? Delta Kappa Epsilon has no Ohio State chapter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 14, 1936 | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

Ohio. When Franklin Roosevelt stumped Ohio, he said not a word for his supposed Democratic liability, Governor Martin Luther Davey. Polls which gave the State to Roosevelt unanimously indicated that, after many a run-in with the New Deal, aggressive, unpopular Governor Davey was about to be returned to the private life of a tree surgeon by Republican John W. Bricker, State Attorney General. Apparently they were unanimously wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATES: Governors | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

...parade of visitors past his desk that fact was emphasized. He confabbed with Senator Wagner who will write his 1936 platform; with John L. Lewis, backer of Labor's Nonpartisan League to re-elect Roosevelt, Democratic Chairman Farley, Governors Davey of pivotal Ohio and McNutt of pivotal Indiana, with AAAd-ministrator Davis who lately returned from a trip to Europe to begin a grand tour of the farm states to bind farmers to the New Deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Political Week | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

...British & Italian soldiers guard the Rhineland shoulder-to-shoulder was sheer diplomatic March Madness. The Dean & Chapter of Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral were so incensed that they refused to offer the usual Sunday prayers for His Majesty's Government and to the congregation Canon Thomas Arthur Edwards Davey cried: "We will not lead you to pray for blessings upon proposals which require Britain to link arms with the armies of the country which is committing barbarous outrages upon the defenseless people of Ethiopia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: White Paper | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

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