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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elgin, Ill., Mrs. Beulah Kemp, 38, underwent a routine operation: the extraction of an inch-long phonograph needle from her insides, the twelfth in the past 23 years. Vexed, Mrs. Kemp has no idea where the needles come from or how they get inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 13, 1940 | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

When Huey Long was assassinated in 1935, Governor Richard Webster Leche (now under a Federal indictment for fraud) took over the paper. When Leche resigned last summer, Governor Earl Kemp Long, Huey's brother, bought American Progress for $188,000. Last week Earl Long too was out of office, twice beaten at the polls (TIME, March 4), his political machine a shambles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Progress | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

News correspondents, on vigil in Room No. 4 on the second floor of Helsinki's Hotel Kemp, heard the German broadcast and several others from foreign stations, but still could get no confirmation from Finnish officials. No news came from the Finnish Diet, which wrangled in secret far into the night, debating whether or not to accept at this last hour the Allies' offer of 50,000 troops. Morning came, and though news correspondents were certain now of peace, Finns were not. A carpenter busy boarding up a store window against more bomb splinters said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN THEATRE: One War Ends | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...many a female Trinity heart skipped a beat when "Little Tui" announced his engagement from the pulpit, married Mary Kemp Blagden, daughter of a rich Philadelphia family. Last week it became evident that "Little Tui" had never really stopped thinking of his college work. On Sunday Bishop Wallace John Gardner of New Jersey mounted the pulpit of Trinity Church in Princeton, announced that the rector of Trinity, Boston, was resigning his pulpit, would take over the vacant rectorship of Trinity, Princeton, next September. There was no actual applause, but the congregation felt like cheering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Trinity to Trinity | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

Shreveport, La. radio officials several times silenced parts of a campaign speech by Governor Earl Kemp Long, Huey's brother, because of his hells, damns, other profanities. Finally, political prudence getting the better of discretion, they gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 22, 1940 | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

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