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Asked what was his favorite dish, North Carolina's Governor John Christoph Blucher Ehringhaus replied: "The boy in me always craves ice cream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 18, 1936 | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

Unmitigated translation is a heavy enough dish at anybody's table, but German has something indescribably "schwer" in its very nature that makes such a diet untenable. The reformation of the elementary courses, especially the establishment of German 1, the long-awaited survey course in literature, seems to be just what the doctor ordered for those who want cultural knowledge along with their language...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GERMAN MAKES AMENDS | 5/5/1936 | See Source »

...indifference shown by Massachusetts voters in Tuesday's election, in indicating their preference for presidential candidates, would seem to show that the political seers who prophesied bitterly-fought campaigns and November fireworks, were smacking anticipatory lips over a highly over-rated dish. Landon emerged as the Republican choice, with a ten-to-one margin over his nearest rival, a man named Hoover. Such definite support by an Eastern state of the horse-and-buggy governor must come as a blow to those who were sure that a Western candidate would not be successful in New England...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESIDENTIAL PREFERENCES | 4/30/1936 | See Source »

...Christian, Miss. As soon as she could go to New Orleans, three big parties, organized respectively by the Times-Picayune, the Tulane University School of Journalism and her friends, were to honor her four decades of newspaper work, during which time her journalistic salad had grown from a side dish in one New Orleans paper to a main course in 200 throughout the world. Hired in 1896 for $5 a week and now retained for $70,000 a year as personal counselor to some 13,000,000 readers, Dorothy Dix unquestionably has become the world's No. I newspaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Decades of Dix | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

...five-point system he would substitute for the President's latest nonsense. A glance at the propositions indicates their pure and simple anti-Rooseveltism. So far there has been little danger of the Republicans' obscuring what they oppose with what they favor. And if the President continues to dish out the clammy hash, the G. O. P. has a good chance of reinstating itself without ever committing itself to anything positive. For the Blue Eagle is even uglier when dragged in without its feathers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE EAGLE'S GHOST | 4/16/1936 | See Source »

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