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Discovering a "public demand" for his services at Albany. Colonel Donovan last month threw himself ardently into a personal campaign for the gubernatorial nomination. His chief handicap is that he lacks the backing of the local Buffalo organization. In Manhattan he was given a dinner last week by the New...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Job No. 2 | 9/5/1932 | See Source »

Alien to most busy folk in the U. S. is the Buddhist hope to reach Nirvana by self-sacrifice, contemplation, suppression of passion. Nevertheless, now & then some inquisitive or discontented Westerner adopts Buddhism. Last year a Mrs. Margaret E. Ledson, 33, California divorcee, became the first U. S. Buddhist nun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Koshukwai | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

To guard against such conditions, as well as to preserve the institution of free speech for the American people, is the aim of a bill which has passed the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and which comes before the Senate tomorrow. This bill, if passed, will make it legal to speak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMON ORATORY | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

Discontented murmurs rose to muttered threats, curses. Prominent beside the auctioneers stood W. G. Crabtree, 50, vice president and general manager of Owensboro Loose Leaf Tobacco Co., operator of six of the seven '"floors" in the town. Farmers rejected bids right & left, began to mill about excitedly shouting. "You...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Cigarets, Cigars | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

So cut & dried seemed the probable result last week that Britons who hoped for a Labor victory were forced to paint a lurid picture: they saw the vast grey host of the unemployed, the discontented and Depression-ridden rising in a tidal wave of dumb resentment, sweeping "Uncle Arthur" Henderson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Oh, Ramsay, Dear | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

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