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Early this year, turned down by the Standing Committee of Correspondents that controls admission to the galleries, he took the case to the Senate and House Rules Committees, arguing that radio handles news just as newspapers do except for printing it and charging people for it, and that excluding radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Gate Crasher | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Alfred Emanuel Smith last week announced that in each & every one of the men, Republican or Democratic, now suggested for P'residential nomination, "There is nothing ... to get very enthusiastic about." Said he: "The kind of a President that is needed . . . who would go in and clean up this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Unenthusiastic | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

Across the street in a filling station, Otis Gillette, the proprietor, loaded his rifle and thrust it into the hands of Tipton Cox, 17, a high-school boy who had scuttled in for shelter. Cox, like all the boys in town, knew and admired Earl. Unlike Earl he had never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Beloved Enemy | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

However effective they might be in scaring the U. S. people into peace at any price, such levies would take away incentive for U. S. businessmen to help win a war. One of the 50 signers (Iowa's Guy Mark Gillette) said he expected nobody to take a confiscatory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: Profiteers Beware | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

All impersonators of Sherlock Holmes must stand comparison with William Gillette, who created the role on the stage. Basil Rathbone acquits himself fully as creditably as John Barrymore, his cinema predecessor. The only serious bit of miscasting in The Hound of the Baskervilles is in the title role. The proper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 3, 1939 | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

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