Word: ed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seats of South Carolina were wide awake last week. Through them since early summer had been traveling two political circuses: a party of eight candidates stumping for nomination as Governor; a trio wrangling over a Senatorship. The nation watched the trio for in it was Senator Ellison DuRant ("Cotton Ed") Smith, 74, dean of Senate Democrats (30 years), upon whose classic brow Franklin Roosevelt had placed his angry Purge mark. Governor Olin Dewitt Talmadge Johnston, 41, was the Purge's agent and candidate. Third man was State Senator Edgar A. Brown. 50, able parliamentarian, former Speaker of the South...
...reference to life on 50? a day was "for illustration" only in discussing Wages & Hours. South Carolina's best newspapers all believed him, quoted the speech to help him prove Candidate Johnston a misinformer, and the 50? issue became a boomerang to improve, instead of diminish, "Cotton Ed's" chance of a sixth consecutive term...
...grandson, great-grandson of farmers (George III granted his great-grandfather the family's ancestral acres near Lynchburg), "Cotton Ed" Smith is South Carolina old-style-bulky, voluble, a tobacco-chewer, whittler, turkey hunter, storyteller. Candidate Johnston calls him "the sleeping Senator" but he can point to a long list of farm legislation he brought to passage as chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee. His chief sins against the New Deal were opposing processing taxes, the Court Plan, Wages & Hours, Housing, Anti-Lynching. Last week he eagerly promised to vote with Franklin Roosevelt whenever he thought him right...
TIME is happy to inform able Book-reviewer Jackson that its researches into best-seller lists have already shown that booksellers, at least, agree with Pearl Buck and him.-ED...
...Manhattan, 23-year-old Frieda Mierse, onetime Follies showgirl, onetime "Miss New York" (1927) discussed the problems of her married life with 51-year-old Comedian Ed Wynn. Highlights: She is recuperating from one of "all sorts of breakdowns" she says she has suffered since she married Wynn 14 months ago; she is forced to hire a $20-a-night gigolo to take her out because "everybody's afraid to dance with me on account of my husband." Explained Miss Mierse: "Ed's elderly and I'm young. It's making a wreck...