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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Jimmy was 17, Hines Sr. sickened never to recover. Jimmy ran the smithy, by 21 was acting for his father as election district captain. Twice he was arrested for street fighting, once for assaulting a girl whom he took to a hotel and afterwards refused to marry-wild oats for a young man on the upper west side. Tammany took care of its own; he wasn't sent to jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Portrait of a Boss | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

Julien Poydras, son of poor peasants at Nantes in France, loved a peasant girl. She had no dot, he had no money, and her parents took the French view of love without francs. Deprived of his intended, young Julien in 1768 took his heart to America, in Louisiana rose from peddler to owner of many acres and slaves. When he died, rich and unwed, in 1824, he bequeathed to the neighboring parishes of Pointe Coupée and West Baton Rouge $30,000 each, ". . . the interest ... to be employed in giving a dowry to all girls of the said parish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Poydras' Brides | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

Born. To David Whitmire Hearst, 23, youngest (with his twin, Randolph) son of Publisher William Randolph Hearst; and onetime Show Girl Hope Chandler, 18; a daughter, their first child; Hearst's fourth grandchild; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 3, 1939 | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

...girl who wears a cotton stocking Need never give her door a locking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Funk's Amoeba | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

...Were a single Junior prom, similar to the Jubilee, to be held, the ever-recurring demand for a big name would be satisfied; and at the same time there would no longer be any legitimate protest against the simple, "atmospheric," restricted dance. Jitterbugs would have their big time, the girl from Cleveland or Atlanta could be imported, and Harvard would yearly have a taste of the elite of swingdom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DE GUSTIBUS . . . | 3/28/1939 | See Source »

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