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...outer crust, beamed on his mountain neighbors. The nights were growing cool. When William Allen White left Emporia with Mrs. White two weeks ago, the thermometer stood at 105° on the bleached Kansas plain; here he needed his topcoat ; the snows of October were on the way. Now elk grazed in the meadow before the house at sundown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Story of a Tide | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

...such a powerful degree that he attracted the nose of Governor Henry Horner in 1936. The Governor was out for reelection, and the powerful Kelly-Nash machine was out to stop him. It was backslapping, 44-year-old Lyn Smith, a Kiwanian, Mason, Shriner. Elk, World War veteran, whom Henry Horner chose to manage his campaign downstate. Mr. Smith's reward for helping Horner win was the directorship of the State Department of Public Works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: Little Black Book | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

Chase Osborn is a metallographer, zoologist, ornithologist, theologian, explorer, publisher, charitarian, author, Elk, Odd Fellow, honorary Boy Scout and onetime (1911-12) Governor of Michigan. He is also a geographer. Last year comprehensive Mr. Osborn lodged a geographic complaint with the Census Bureau, whose chore it is to compute the areas of States and Territories. The complaint: in figuring Michigan's area the Bureau had overlooked 39,960 square miles of Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and St. Clair that lie within the State's borders. Bombarded by Osborn letters, wires, facts & figures, the Bureau finally gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHIGAN: At 80 | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

...Driving at night to Deer Lodge through the National Forest, where elk, deer, bighorn sheep and mountain goat find pasture on the upper slopes, a group of skiers carrying torches popped out of the woods, stopped the caravan, asked Candidate Dewey for a speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGNS: Up the Mountain | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...Virginia and South Carolina), they appreciate a politician. When Jim Farley stopped off at Charlotte's Southern Railway station one day last week, the mayor gave Democratic Chairman Farley the city's key, Charlotte's postmen gave Postmaster General Farley a leather traveling bag and the Elks gave Elk Farley a hat which unfortunately proved to be a couple of sizes too small for his bald head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Farley's Forihgoing | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

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