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Political lightning struck Iowa when Harry Hopkins, boss of WPA and a sitter on the New Deal Olympus, flatly plumped for Representative Otha Donner Wearin in this week's Democratic Senatorial primary (TIME, June 6). What would otherwise have been a routine performance amid the fields of waving corn, with Senator Guy Mark Gillette walking sedately off renominated, was instantly transformed into a microcosm of the national political situation, a furious hurly-burly involving scores of participants far beyond Iowa's borders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Iowa Microcosm | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

...Otha Donner Wearin is a 35-year-old farmer from the Vale of Nishna near Hastings, Iowa. He wears a permanent red necktie, has some ability at hog-calling, writes for farm papers. In the Roosevelt avalanche of 1932 he slid into the House but was not conspicuously New Dealish (he voted against AAA and NRA) until lately, when he has run with Maury Maverick's "Young Turks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Pumps & Polls | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

Married. Mrs. Elizabeth Browning Donner Roosevelt, divorced wife of Elliott Roosevelt; to Curtin Winsor, 31, student at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music; in Philadelphia. Mrs. Winsor, divorced from the President's second son in July. 1933, after a marriage of a year and a half, has custody of their son, William Donner Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 1, 1937 | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...decade Dr. Ewing has declared that with six $10,000,000 institutes, scientists could soon control cancer. Nearest approach to that, before last week's gift, was $2,000,000 which Steelmaker William Henry Donner of Philadelphia, transient father-in-law of Elliott Roosevelt, gave for an International Cancer Research Foundation (TIME, June 20, 1932). Before that the biggest cancer war chest was the $1,400,000 of the George Crocker Institute for Cancer Research, which Dr. Francis Carter Wood manages at Columbia University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Millions for Cancer | 7/5/1937 | See Source »

TYROLEAN NIGHT *March, "Under the Double Eagle"J. F. Wagner *"Die Fledermaus", Overture Strauss *German Dance, "The Sleigh Ride" Mozart "Georgica", Bavarian Folk Pieces Egk Tyrolean Peasant Dances Schonherr *Liebesfreud Kreisler *Overture to "William Tell" Rossini *"Vienna Blood", Waltzes Strauss *"Die Dorfumsik" Fryberg *"Donner und Blitzen", Polka Strauss *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT THE POPS | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

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