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Dates: during 1930-1939
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If South Carolina's primary vote was a conservative headache to Franklin Roosevelt (see above). California's was a radical stomachache. There, despite his personal blessing, his old friend, Senator William Gibbs McAdoo-who served with him under Woodrow Wilson-was last week snowed under by more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: Funny Money Man | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

Another witness was Julius Richard ("Dixie") Davis, the racket's smooth young mouthpiece, whose career at the bar, a polar opposite to that of 36-year-old Thomas Edmund Dewey, was fully as precocious. Having turned State's evidence in hope of saving his hide, Davis answered most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: New Style Trial | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

Dockweiler of Los Angeles and six other candidates including pompous James Francis Thaddeus ("Jefty") O'Connor, onetime U. S. Comptroller of the Currency. As silvery of tongue as of hair, Mr. Olson first showed his political potency in 1934 when, as nominee for State Senator, he carried Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: Funny Money Man | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

Last year, when Duke University's Dr. Joseph Banks Rhine published his telepathy theories, "ExtraSensory Perception" (ESP) became the brief rage of women's clubs all over the U. S. Commander Eugene Francis McDonald Jr., energetic president of Zenith Radio Corp. and long a believer in thought transference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Patterns and Peephole | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

Died, May Yohe Hope Strong Smuts, 69, Victorian actress who knew most of the rich dandies of two continents; of arterial sclerotic heart disease and chronic vascular nephritis; in Boston, Mass. In 1894, tempestuous May Yohe, then London star of Little Christopher Columbus, married Lord Francis Hope, who gave her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 5, 1938 | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

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