Word: franked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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George William Norris has been a Senator from Nebraska for 15 years. Before that he served ten years in the House. So cynical an observer as Frank R. Kent of the Baltimore Sun calls him "the most honest Senator." He sits on the Republican side; he is chairman of the Judiciary Committee, but only because the Republicans have sought him, have courted his influence. Actually he is and has always been totally independent, quieter than his late friend Senator LaFollette, firmer than his ponderous friend Senator Borah. Something unbending, something chilled by logic, leads him to conclusions whither not even...
...Nicaraguan presidential candidates issued last week, a declaration that he not only favors the piesent U. S. electoral supervision, but will, if elected, request U. S. supervision of the Nicaraguan presidential election of 1932. When the substance of these declarations was made known to Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg, he commented: "Most gratifying...
Cabled by Election Supervisor U. S. Brigadier General Frank Ross McCoy, was a report of "atrocities" committed in districts where it has been impossible to make U. S. supervision fully effective. The report mentioned "revolting cruelty," "victims hacked to pieces with machetes," "fingers severed in order to remove rings," "noses and ears cut off," and "bodies mutilated after death...
Wells Root (Yale 1922), onetime theatre critic for TIME, wrote this cinema of the adventure of the son of a janitor and a girl from a Wild West show in the shadow of Holder Tower. Frank Wright Tuttle (Yale 1915) directed it. Like loyal sons of Eli, the author and director asked permission to shoot the college scenes on their own campus but were turned down by New Haven authorities, annoyed by the many unauthorized pictures which have shown Yale men as debauchees...
Last week, he sold out to Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett, owner of 13 newspapers, third largest chain in the U. S. It was Publisher Gannett's third important buy of the year. The first, The Hartford Times (TIME, Feb. 6), cost him $5,000,000. Last June (TIME, June 18) he bought the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle. Price: $3,500,000. The Knickerbocker Press and Albany Evening News bring his year's investments well above $10,000,000. Publisher Gannett's newspapers are known as "clean," "wholesome" and "non-partisan...