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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jersey Democrats would like to break up Mayor Bradway's Republican machine and get Cape May County back into the Democratic column. Last winter Democratic Senators protested the seating of Cape May County's Senator-elect William C. Hunt on the grounds that votes had been fraudulently switched to him by Wildwood Republicans. So tense was this situation that U. S. Senator-elect William Henry Smathers remained for three months in his old seat in the State Senate, divided 11 to 10 between the parties, to help balance Senator-suspect Hunt. During the investigation, Mayor Bradway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Extraordinary Mayor | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

Observed in proper legal form in Baltimore last week were stockholders' meetings in two spinal column holding companies of the erstwhile $3,000,000,000 Van Sweringen rail and real-estate empire, Alleghany Corp. and Chesapeake Corp. Proxies prosaically were cast to elect as directors the new controlling interests in Alleghany Corp. At the same time in Manhattan, Stockbrokers Robert Ralph Young and Frank Frederick Kolbe were sitting down with George A. Ball to complete the transaction by which the 74-year-old Muncie, Ind. fruit-jar manufacturer stepped down as the dominant figure in the Van Sweringen picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Age of Innocence | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

Lippmann, speaking before 300 alumni representing all parts of the country, wished that President Roosevelt could treat his enemies with more cordiality. James M. Landis, Dean-Elect of the Law School, said that training for an attorney will be emphasized in a curriculum revision soon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lippmann, Before Associated Harvard Clubs, Hits Roosevelt's Class Warfare; New Officers Elected | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

What the current delegation lacks in absolute face cards, as compared to that of 1935, is compensated by weight other of numbers. Besides President Conant other officers now in Indiana Include Deans Hanford, Chase, Plimpton, Deans-elect Landis and Williams, Professors Henderson, Mayo, Dill, T. N. Whitehead, Doctor Bock. Professor-emeritus Taussig and Secretary to the University Little...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY HIGH COMMAND IN TOUR TO INDIANAPOLIS | 5/15/1937 | See Source »

Evidently pleased with Russ Allen's throwing against the Bruins, Coach Mitchell will again start the football captain elect in the left field garden...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dave Shean Will Twirl for Crippled Crimson Nine Against Cornell Team Today; Ingalls to Face Dartmouth Tomorrow | 5/14/1937 | See Source »

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