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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a brief stop in Detroit, he sped back to Albany, turned abruptly from national to local politics. On the eve of the Democratic State convention the Tammany tiger was again on the rampage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: At Sumnick's Place | 10/10/1932 | See Source »

What the quids & quos of this deal were, nobody but Bosses Curry & Koenig knew for certain. But shocking to Press and citizens was the spectacle of the two parties on the eve of a red hot election playing hand in glove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Brazen Deal | 10/10/1932 | See Source »

...principal concert of the fall season will be given in New Haven on the eve of the Yale football game. After that the members of the club will concentrate on preparation for the presentation, in conjunction with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Radcliffe Choral Society, of Hector Berlioz's "Damnation Faust" in Symphony Hall, probably in December. During the spring there will be the usual Smith and Wellesley concerts and the annual spring trip...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLEE CLUB TO HOLD VOICE TRIALS IN MUSIC BUILDING | 9/27/1932 | See Source »

Efforts to discredit the Mahatma on the eve of his fast ranged from official British announcements that he was being fitted with a new set of false teeth to the instinctive act of a British showman who cabled Mr. Gandhi a cash offer to come to England and starve unto Death as a sideshow freak. "Your case, right or wrong," cabled Showman Luke Gannon, "will then be understood by the people of England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Sarcasm & Saint | 9/26/1932 | See Source »

...Palm Beach. His wife, the former Anna Perkins Slade, daughter of onetime Harvard Professor Daniel Denison Slade, is a niece of Countess Edla of Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha. He likes to tell how a British secret service agent whisked them out of Germany on a diplomatic train on the eve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Maple Leaf Magazines | 9/26/1932 | See Source »

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