Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other words, by my information, what Mr. Blackton has to say is not correct. Why give a beautiful city and State the proverbial black eye...
Most popular mourner naturally was Governor Gordon Browning, who will appoint Senator Bachman's successor. Governor Browning, elected last autumn with the support of Boss Edward Hull Crump of Memphis (TIME, Aug. 17), had had his own eye on Senator Bachman's seat, which was occupied by Cordell Hull until he moved into the Cabinet. Gordon Browning, in fact, lost the seat to Nathan Bachman in the primaries of 1934. Knowing that the public does not like a Governor who resigns in order to be appointed to the Senate, he firmly announced last week that he would...
...Spanish civil war put blood in the eye of Owen O'Duffy. From the back hills he recruited a battalion of young boys, sworn to die in the fight against communism and in defense of the Catholic Church, and that a great many of them did. Last week, with General Franco pounding away at the gates of Bilbao, word came that General O'Duffy's Irish Brigade would soon be on the way back to Britain. The official reason was that since the international non-intervention scheme went into effect fortnight ago, no replacements could...
...Paulistas boycotted the election which President Vargas got around to holding in 1934. What Rio Grandenses have been wondering lately is whether this scramble has upped their State or merely shrewd Getulio Vargas. No sooner did the State's No. 2 politico, Dr. Oswaldo Aranha, cast an anxious eye toward the Presidency than he was shipped off to Washington as Ambassador. General Flores da Cunha thereupon encouraged a Paulista, Armando Salles de Oliveira, to resign his post as Governor of the State and thus qualify himself as a candidate for next year's election. Such treachery...
...Like Dell, the old woodpulp publishing firm of Street & Smith keeps a weather eye cocked for new fields to enter. Street & Smith's new picture magazine is a large rotogravure publication exclusively devoted to sport. Launched as a monthly for a dime, Pic offers twelve issues for a dollar, presents action shots of current stars like Joe Di Maggio, Joe Louis, Jim Braddock, oldtimers like Annette Kellerman and Hans ("Honus"') Wagner. Idea of Pic came from its business manager, young A. Lawrence Holmes, Princetonian son of S. & S.'s Vice President Artemas Holmes...