Word: killinger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"Stop Landon/- CandidateVandenberg took the spotlight one day by announcing in Washington that he would refuse the Vice Presidential nomination, thereby killing Kansas' hopes of a Landon-Vandenberg ticket. Two days later the Michigan Senator arrived in Cleveland, primed to add his bit to the dying "Stop Landon" movement...
Possibly this was never done because in 1933, as in 1936, the evidence was largely, if not wholly, circumstantial. It happened that Newfoundland bonds were underwritten by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and, of course, soared in price. It also happened that blocks of such bonds...
Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin last week mulled the problem of filling the hole in his "National" Government made by Secretary of State for the Colonies James Henry ("Jim") Thomas' resignation after last April's scandalous Budget leak (TIME, June 1 et ante). Jim Thomas, after a week'...
Big, tough Mexico far surpasses all other Latin-American States in the pursuit of Crime. Ever since the Spanish Conquest, notably tough individuals variously known as "rebels," "bandits" or "leaders" have led private armies against the forces of law & order. They always have a base village where they are beloved...
OSCAR WILDE DISCOVERS AMERICA- Lloyd Lewis and Henry Justin Smith- Harcourt, Brace ($4.50). In 1881 the inimitable musicomedies of Gilbert & Sullivan were all the rage on both sides of the Atlantic. Shrewd Producer D'Oyly Carte was planning to send the authorized version of his latest G. & S. operetta...