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...best-selling novel, The Yearling, plump Marjorie Kinnan Rowlings was awarded this year's Pulitzer Prize. Other winners: Playwright Robert Emmet Sherwood (his second), for Abe Lincoln in Illinois; Biographer Carl Van Doren, for Benjamin Franklin; Scripps-Howard Correspondent Thomas L Stokes, for exposing WPA in Kentucky politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 8, 1939 | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...second boat the positions are as follows: stroke, Bristol Hall; No. 7, James E. Walker; No 6, "Buck" Anderson; No. 5, Gerald A. Fulham; No. 4, Alan Miller; No. 3, Lewis H. Spence; No. 2, Edward C. Perkins; bow, William T. Emmet 2nd; and cox John w. Straus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Love Gets Freshman Heavy Crew into Shape for Initial Regatta With Tech | 4/21/1939 | See Source »

Governor Stark quarreled with Boss Pendergast in 1937 over the reappointment of R. Emmet O'Malley, State superintendent of insurance. All Missouri had wondered about a great insurance rate fight, which Mr. O'Malley settled in 1935. Insurance companies had jacked up their rates on fire and windstorms. Some $9,500,000 in increased premium collections were impounded by the courts when the policyholders protested. Mr. O'Malley's settlement returned 20% of the money to policyholders, 50% to the companies; the other 30% was to defray litigation costs. What the grand jury believed last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: BIGGER THAN HINES | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

Christians to take a personal pledge to boycott German goods, boats and territory are being rounded up by a committee suggested by Christopher T. Emmet Jr. of Stony Brook, L. I., headed by Dr. William Jay Schieffelin of Manhattan's Citizens' Union, assisted by Presidents Henry Noble MacCracken of Vassar College and Frank P. Graham of University of North Carolina, President Oliver La Farge of the American Association on Indian Affairs, Editor Guy Emery Shipler of the Churchman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Pressure Groups | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

Best-known New Thought preacher in the U. S. is Rev. Emmet Fox-a board member of the Alliance-who for the past year and a half has been preaching to an average 5,500 people every Sunday in his "Church of the Healing Christ" in Manhattan's Hippodrome. A onetime British electrical engineer, New Thoughtist Fox believes in a universal Law to which anyone may tune his mind in "scientific prayer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: New Thought | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

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