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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In Fishersville, Va. Farmer Jasper Davis won the title of "spittingest man in the South River District" when he scored a bull's-eye at 12 ft. 9 in. in a high wind.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 12, 1936 | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

¶ Last week Chicago's unresting Goldblatt Brothers, who recently capped their merchandising careers by buying the old Davis Store from Marshall Field (TIME, Sept. 14), acquired as general manager a distinguished U. S. fighting man. From Fort Sam Houston, Tex. to be executive vice president of the Goldblatt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Personnel: Oct. 12, 1936 | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

Birth of this magnum opus, which will name, with all the care usually assigned to picking All American football teams, and Davis Cup tennis, a "carefully sifted list" of several hundred students, whom the compilers firmly believe to be in at least the upper brackets.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Social Register of Harvardmen" Sifts Out Undergraduates in Highest Society | 10/8/1936 | See Source »

Running through signals yesterday, the tentative Kirkland team was made up of the following men: backs, Wiley E. Mayne '38, Richard H. Wills, Jr. '38, George F. Stubbs, Jr. '38, and Donald W. Davis, Jr. '37; ends, Robert W. Snyder '38, and Ray W. Tripp, Jr. '38; tackles, William G...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House News | 10/6/1936 | See Source »

* Although Missouri, like Maryland, is considered by most observers likely to go Democratic, last week Joseph Pulitzer's old paper, the liberal St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which supported Wilson in 1916, Cox in 1920, Davis in 1924, Smith in 1928 and Roosevelt in 1932, announced that in 1936 it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: As Maryland Goes | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

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