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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fight on Mr. Hughes commenced slowly, almost apologetically, at the instigation of Nebraska's Senator Norris. Gathering momentum, it quickly drew in Idaho's Senator Borah, chronic complainant. Within the year Senator Borah had opposed President Hoover on farm relief, on the tariff, on prohibition enforcement personnel, on "freedom-of-the-seas" at the London Naval Conference. It was no great leap from loyalty for him to object to President Hoover's choice as Chief Justice. One by one other Republican Progressives began to rally against Mr. Hughes. Such assorted Democratic Senators as Virginia's Glass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Dred Scott Cited | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

Drab as Dreiser was the murder of Marvin Drew. He was a jobless railroad section hand at Ashland, Miss. His wife Pearl, 30, had borne him three children, was great with a fourth. On a hot July evening last year he was asleep in his bed, with his daughter, Dorothy Louise, 7, at his side, when Mrs. Drew entered his room lumberingly, shot him through the heart. Her reasons: drink, other women, gossip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Murder in Rhyme | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

...Drew's confession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Murder in Rhyme | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

...days later Mrs. Drew delivered her baby just as her father, "Pop" Gunter, was being arrested for murder. Convicted on the perjured testimony of Dorothy Louise, he was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment. Last November, Mrs. Drew's conscience stung her into confessing the murder to Mississippi's Governor Theodore Gilmore Bilbo who promptly released her father from prison. Last week Mrs. Drew pleaded guilty to manslaughter at Ashland, awaited sentence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Murder in Rhyme | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

Harvard's victory although not brilliant, was more impressive than any previous win this year. Coming on the same day that Yale had trouble in downing the weakest Princeton team in years Harvard's odds on the impending series with the Blue drew almost up to the fifty-fifty mark...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIX IMPRESSIVE IN TAKING FINAL GREEN GAME, 4 TO 1 | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

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