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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Huey's political heir, Governor Richard Webster Leche (rhymes with "flesh"). "I swore to uphold the Constitution of Louisiana and the United States, but I did not take any vows of poverty," Dick Leche used to say. One of L. S. U.'s new buildings is Leche Hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Jimmy the Stooge | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

...this bucolic attempt on his life, said: "Come on. The fellow is crazy. Let us proceed with our program." A board was put over the fragments in the street, a, policeman stood on it to keep peasants from prying, and the three remaining cars drove on to the Town Hall. So the incident ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: One Morning in Bosnia | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...they passed Princip and Grabezh, both of whom lost their nerve with the failure of the first attempt. At the Town Hall the Mayor was waiting. When Franz Ferdinand and Sophie entered he began a speech of welcome. His subject: Bosnian loyalty to the crown. This was too stuffy for Ferdinand. He interrupted: "Enough of that! I make you a visit and you greet me with bombs." Sophie quieted him and the Mayor nervously finished his address...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: One Morning in Bosnia | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...disappointed delegates, who had looked forward to fun in Rio, and 2) where to hold their meeting. Last week they neatly got around their difficulty. Accepting the Government's explanation that the invitation had been withdrawn, not for political reasons, but only because a new convention hall had not been completed, they decided to go to Rio for their fun, hold their meetings afterward on the homeward cruising S. S. Rotterdam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fun in Rio | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...which has the best-equipped laboratory of marine biology in the world. In Princeton, he gets up every morning at six. Two mornings a week he tramps, in good weather and bad, the three-quarter mile from his red-roofed stucco house to his book-lined workshop in Guyot Hall. He also lectures regularly to graduate students. And, four mornings a week, he hops the 7:45 train to Philadelphia and goes to the headquarters of the American Philosophical Society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Old-Fashioned | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

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