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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hall in Philadelphia broadcasting these sentiments. The Party from Franklin Roosevelt down was engaging in a concerted move to sway Governor Herbert Lehman of New York from his intention of retiring, to run again for Governor in order to strengthen the Demo-cratic ticket in New York. The forced draft succeeded after Franklin Roosevelt had sent his old friend Herbert a personal letter urging him to make the race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Quarterback's Surprise | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

...ashore a searching party at Canton Island, where last month a party of scientists viewed the | solar eclipse (TIME, June 21). Meanwhile the aircraft carrier Lexington, with 62 planes aboard (instead of 72 as first announced) and an escort of four destroyers, sped out of San Diego at forced draft, stopped in Hawaii to refuel, arrived in the search area early this week. If the Lexington's great fleet of planes could not find the lost flyers. Rear Admiral Orin G. Murfin, coordinator of the search, planned to abandon it. Meanwhile the chance of finding the flyers alive, according...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amelia Earhart - One in a Million | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

...long first-draft preamble was soon sliced down to one paragraph remarking the Guild's partisanship on the Supreme Court plan, the Spanish civil war, "the support of a particular political party," its affiliation with C.I.O. Some small-town publishers, still comparatively free from unionization, wanted in the resolution no recognition of the right to collective bargaining, fearing that it would inspire immediate mass organization in their plants. But broad-viewing publishers like Roy Howard fought for and won inclusion of such recognition as a means of gaining public goodwill. Up on his feet a dozen & more times jumped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Guild & Grail | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

...declared war April 6, 1917 and as the rumbling of the guns rolled across the Atlantic, marriage records began to tumble nationwide as U. S. males jumped to escape the draft or to marry their best girls before going out to die. Chicago's municipal marriage license bureau set an all-time high on April 9, 1917, issuing 1,124 licenses. Last week saw that Wartime record tremble on Monday when 1,119 licenses were issued, tumble on Tuesday with 1,153, be trampled underfoot on Wednesday by a mob of 1,407 engaged couples who kept the overworked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Marriage Mills | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

...faint voice saying "SOS KHAQQ!" (the plane's call letters) over & over, and there was no indication whether the plane was on land or sea, south or north of Howland, the greatest rescue expedition in flying history speedily got under way at huge expense. From Hawaii at forced draft steamed the battleship Colorado, from San Diego four destroyers and the aircraft carrier Lexington with 72 planes, from Japan vessels of the Japanese fishing fleet. At week's end no one knew whether Miss Earhart was another Kingsford-Smith, who was lost forever in the Bay of Bengal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Lost Earhart | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

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