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...heyday-the '30s-Hague had ruled Jersey City with an almost absolute power. "I am the law," he once said, and he meant it. From Jersey City he controlled governors, judges, U.S. Senators. But the cost of Hague came high. As the taxes rose, people and industries moved away. After 1940, Hague's machine became less & less effective at the polls, lost most of its state patronage. Last month, in Hoboken, a Hague henchman, Mayor Bernard McFeely, was defeated for re-election (TIME, May 26). Frank Hague could read the portents...
...heyday of the Vikings, before 1300 A.D., the populous republic of Iceland lived largely by agriculture; the Norse raised sheep in Greenland, where no sheep graze today. After 1300, the cold crept down and the Icelanders gave up farming. The Greenlanders were exterminated, perhaps by starvation, perhaps by glacier-fleeing Eskimos. Now that the tide has turned, Dr. Ahlmann, a good Norseman, hopes the warm cycle will last for at least a few centuries...
Died. The Office of Price Administration, five years and six months old, in its heyday the controversial guardian of price controls on some 8,000,000 items from bubble gum to locomotives, once staffed with 235,000 volunteer workers in 5,561 local boards; by executive order of the President, after a long decline induced by progressive decontrol. OPA's heirs: Department of Agriculture (sugar and rice) ; Office of the Housing Expediter (rents); Department of Commerce (winding up OPA records); Department of Justice (pending enforcement cases...
...activities toward this end take two very different forms: he writes erudite books on social philosophy and he operates a political machine that extends from Chiang Kai-shek's ear down to the wards and villages. If James Aloysius Farley in the New Deal's turbulent heyday had attempted to bring up to date the philosophy of John Locke, the U.S. would have a better precedent for understanding Chen Li-fu. (Chen's best-known book Life-subtitle, Vitaism-has had a sensational sale in China: 250,000 copies...
History 5, pre-war baby of the survey courses and currently the fastest growing, has moved into third place in popularity, jumping from 449 to 529. Former perennial monarch, History 1, is now in fourth place with a 513 total, down from its 1933 heyday peak of 828 when College enrollment rarely topped...