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...Wheeler dirt; finding none, they made some, concocted a charge that Wheeler had used his Senatorial influence to obtain illegal oil leases for a client. After waiting a year for the case to come to trial, Wheeler was acquitted in ten minutes. As the verdict came in, a tele gram arrived from Washington telling of the birth of a daughter. Wheeler named her Marion Montana, the Marion after "Fighting Bob" (Robert Marion) La Follette Sr. On his 80th birthday, in Colum bus, Ohio, Jan. 26, old man Daugherty said he bore Wheeler no ill will, thought he would probably make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Men A-Plenty | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...wished to send a girl a birthday wire, poor clam, I'd use a Western Union predigested tele gram-That'll show you what I am: Just a boob, a Simple Sam, But I have my one rebellion, and I stick to it, by damn-For in one thing, I insist, I'm a misbehaviorist, As heroic as they were at Valley Forge: With amazement hear me speak My accomplishment unique, I NEVER CALLED A PULLMAN PORTER GEORGE. If you want the other stanzas, you can find them in the files of the SRI.. Will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 18, 1940 | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...yolk, in embryos which have not finished eating the yolk, and in egg-carrying adult females. When some of this poison was injected into a cat, the cat lost muscular coordination, collapsed, went into convulsions, suffered respiratory paralysis, died in 20 minutes. Quantitative tests showed that one gram (1/28 oz.) of Triturus poison is enough to kill 75,000 mice or 600 monkeys or (presumably) 21 grown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Little Devil | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

...officer's clipped story of his ship's disaster, thrilled to the drama of the Squalus rescue work. They heard a new Pope proclaimed. They heard three men launch a war. And, as conductor of this medley of events, they heard the cool, trenchant voice of Raymond Gram Swing, MBS's one-man brain trust on world affairs, U. S. radio's "find" of 1939. Some radio programs listed him under Dance Music, as "Raymond Gram, swing!" But last week Variety voted Raymond Gram Swing the leading "attention-getter" among news analysts and commentators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Find | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

...Raymond Gram Swing is 52, a tall, stooped, tweedy, horn-rimmed man with unruly brown hair. The Gram came from his wife, Betty Gram, once a militant suffragette and still an ardent feminist. He pitched into U. S. journalism in 1906, at 19. In 1913 he became the Chicago Daily News's man in Berlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Find | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

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