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His local audience had grown rather too used to the idea of TVA to thrill to it again. It cheered, but the effect was not what he achieved later that day. The eleven-car Presidential special took him and his party to Newfound Gap to dedicate the Great Smoky Mountains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Non-Political Campaign | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

In Magic Music's headquarters in the Penobscot Building, studio operators, working six-hour tricks with telephone-girl's headsets, paraded back & forth before long rows of phonograph turntables, each supplying a different bar or nightclub. As patrons dropped their nickels into the slot and phoned their requests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Telephonic Juke | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

A few days later, Claude Pepper rose on the Senate floor, and with black hair plastered to his skull, long nose lifted, his slightly whining, heavily earnest voice raised above the undercurrent of whispering in the chamber, cried: "If our people had an opportunity to speak on this floor I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Historic Sentence? | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

Last week Emporia, Kans. held a five-day Fiestaval to dedicate its new $613.000 Civic Auditorium. Jiving, jittering climax of the Fiestaval was a dance, to music supplied (at $1,100) by dapper Duke Ellington, greatest of black swing-sters, and his band. The Sage of Emporia, wise old William...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Sage Looks at Swing | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

This week was a proud one for old Blanford Dougherty. One day Congressman Robert ("Old Muley") Doughton and many another bigwig arrived at Boone to help him dedicate a new $150,000 science building. They praised a still greater Dougherty achievement: a system of State support for its public schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hillbilly's School System | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

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