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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exploits of New York City's vigorous young Racketbuster Thomas Edmund Dewey* not only gave impetus to a new cinema vogue but set up a lively demand for real life counterparts as well. Last month, before his legislature met, Missouri's Governor Lloyd Crow Stark published a tempting want ad. If any place needed a Dewey, thundered the Governor, it was that haven of corruption, Kansas City, stamping ground, of his old enemy, Boss Tom Pendergast. Governor Stark ordered his Attorney General Roy McKittrick to go into action. Last week the play was taken out of McKittrick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSOURI: Zealous Judges | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

Before a packed house of 500 listeners, Kerins mowed down his opponents by choice phrases quoted from Edmund Burke which received loud applause from citizens and many of Kerins' former high school classmates. In his three-minute speech, Kerins gave his rivals for election until February 8 to present their platforms or withdraw from the election, which takes place on March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sophomore Office Seeker Pulverizes Political Enemies | 2/1/1939 | See Source »

...Gentlemen, here is one more thing you can blame on that man in the White House." With these words Edmund M. Morgan, Royall Professor of Law, and formerly acting Dean of the Law School, addressed one of his new classes at the Law School the other day. Morgan is one of the chief cogs in the complicated Faculty shifting which was necessitated by the appointment of Felix Frankfurter to the Supreme Court...

Author: By A STAFF Reporter, | Title: FRANKFURTER EXIT MEANS MUCH LAW FACULTY CHANGE | 1/25/1939 | See Source »

...armed pursuit of peace." But he quickly decides that "I must give up feeling bad-tempered about it, or I should be ruining my afternoon." For the rest, the War's corpses are peacefully buried. So is his onetime vow to write to "scandalize the jolly old [Sir Edmund] Gosses and [Lytton] Stracheys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Relatively Idyllic | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...Edmund B. Spaeth, Jr. '42 of Philadelphia and Grays Hall was elected Chairman of the Freshman Union Committee last Tuesday evening at a special meeting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spaeth Elected to Head Freshman Union Committee | 1/13/1939 | See Source »

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