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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took effect one day in 1916 when he substituted for his father on the platform at a Republican rally, made a hit as a boy orator. Elected to the House by his lead-mining district in 1928, he made an unsuccessful try for the Republican Senatorial nomination in 1932, got back into Congress in 1934. He was Missouri's only Republican in the last two Congresses...
...Spain's U. S. interpreters: for the Rightists. William S. Culbertson, onetime U. S. Ambassador to Chile and brother of Paul Culbertson, assistant chief of the State Department's Division of European Affairs; for the Loyalists, the New Republic's Contributing Editor William P. Mangold, who got a number of Congressmen in trouble with their constituents early this year by persuading them to sign a greeting to the Loyalist Cortes (TIME...
Great fun had Baltimore wits last week as. after three weeks of rain, a crew of WPA workers resumed digging and scraping a desolate spot in Herring Run Park, hard by the city incinerator. News had got round that this project, a model yacht basin costing $40,000, of which the city was putting up $10,000, also included a polo field, WPA's first concession to the most luxurious U. S. sport...
Chicago's Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly is not up for re-election until February. But last week his campaign got under way with a handsomely printed 42-page booklet entitled Out of the Red Into the Black, The Truth About Chicago's Municipal Government. Embellished with photographs of Chicago's wonders (including five of Ed Kelly), tables purporting to show that Chicago's per-capita government cost was $53.57 compared to New York's $91.78, Boston's $88.26, it concluded that Chicago "stands in the front rank for economic administration of governmental affairs...
Thirteen years previously, in 1802, the Congress of the struggling American republic had got around to founding an academy at an inconsequential little place on the Hudson called West Point "for the practical and theoretical training of young men for the national military service, who, upon satisfactorily completing the four-year course are eligible for commissions as second lieutenants in the United States Army." The Vagabond, lovable drain-trap for unimportant details and evanescent emotions that he is, finds himself vastly impressed by this very ordinary second lieutenant coincidence just now. Napoleon and West Pointers--both young men starting life...