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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington. Harry Oldperson. 55, and Joe Butterfly. 71, both Blackfoot Indians, gave 30-year-old James Roosevelt a headdress, a Blackfoot membership and a new name: "Eagle Child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Roosevelt Week: May 23, 1938 | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

John L. Lewis, an Oklahoma City dentist, is running for Congress. Patrick Henry, a Rush Springs cowboy, and Joe Miller, an Elk City farmer, are running for State Auditor. Others: Joe E. Brown, school superintendent in Dustin, for Secretary of State; Robert Burns, Oklahoma City lawyer, for Lieutenant Governor; Brigham Young, Oklahoma City engineer, and Wilbur Wright, Muskogee painter, for Congress; Daniel Boone, McAlester barber, and Huey Long, Oklahoma City businessman, for clerk of the Supreme Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Names | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

...fashioned goto. He missed five out of every six swings. Before the chuckling spectators had time to get accustomed to this primitive technique, one of Galento's punches met Nathan Mann's chin -squarely and effectively, for Galento's fifth successive knockout. It had taken Champion Joe Louis longer (three rounds) to dispose of Nathan Mann last winter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Beer Punch | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

After the fight, 28-year-old Tony Galento announced his two ambitions: to knock out Joe Louis and to endorse a brand of beer. "Most of these here guys that endorse beer never drank a bottle." he swaggered. "Me, I train on it. The public would have some confidence in what I say about beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Beer Punch | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

Last week neat, genial Joseph H. Nuelle was elected president of Delaware & Hudson Co. to take the place of untidy, scowling Leonor Loree, who retired a month ago. Mr. Loree had run Delaware & Hudson since 1907, same year that Joe Nuelle (pronounced Nelly) started work for New York, Ontario & Western. While Mr. Loree was maneuvering Delaware & Hudson into a national prominence not strictly deserved by its present 847 miles of trackage, Mr. Nuelle was persistently working his way up from assistant engineer to principal assistant engineer to engineer of maintenance of way to chief engineer to general manager to president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: After Loree | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

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