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...Republicans, Senators Hale and White were against the canal. But as men from Maine, they were for the dam. Hence Senator Hale forced a division of the Robinson amendment to provide separate votes on the two projects. Florida's canal came first. Senators Hale. White and 28 colleagues voted against it, but 35 Senators put it through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ditch Up, Dam Down | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

...dances alone, except for one rumba with Cyril Wells. Pleasant, unobtrusive songs by Sam Coslow and Harry Woods include It's Love Again and I've Got to Dance My Way to Heaven. The story, an absurd fable, concerns a society-gossip columnist {Sonnie Hale, Miss Matthews' husband in real life) who has trouble finding a celebrity to write about. A friend (Robert Young) invents one, a glamorous Mrs. Smythe-Smythe, proficient dancer and tiger-shooter just back from India. Miss Matthews, having failed to impress a sleepy producer, poses as Mrs. Smythe-Smythe, startles London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 1, 1936 | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

...educates 460,000 pupils at a yearly cost of $71,000,000. Few U. S. educators, however, feel any strong urge to rule it. Peppery, fox-bearded Superintendent William McAndrew (1924-28), born in Ypsilanti, Mich., was constantly bedeviled as a "stool pigeon of King George" by Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill'') Thompson's "America First" campaign. His successor, William Joseph Bogan (1928-36), spent most of his term in the morass of teachers' "payless paydays." Last week Chicago's Board of Education, looking for a successor to Superintendent Bogan, who died in March, chose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Superintendent in Chicago | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

...declined to appropriate funds for Quoddy and the Florida Canal when the War Department Appropriation bill was passed. In the Senate Florida's Senator Fletcher fought in vain for his Florida Canal (TIME, March 30). Quoddy, however, was not even fought for Maine's Republican Senator Frederick Hale quietly told the Senate that so far as he was concerned he did not favor any appropriation for Quoddy in the War Department bill; if President Roosevelt wished to continue Quoddy as a relief project, that was quite all right. Quoddy was not mentioned again in Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dam Ditched; Ditch Damned | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

...EARLIEST DREAMS-Nancy Hale- Scribner ($2.50). Fifteen short stories in minor key by a writer especially adept in dealing with feminine emotions. Author Hale writes with keen perception; at times, as in the title story, reaches a high poetic plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Apr. 27, 1936 | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

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