Word: latters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...latter, who will now appear in the Senate almost automatically unless Senator Sheppard & colleagues change their minds again, is the tall country prosecutor, now heavier and greying, who 13 years ago, with the aid of the late William Jennings Bryan, beat the late Clarence Darrow in court and convicted John Thomas Scopes of the crime of teaching evolution in a Dayton, Tenn. public school. (Another figure in that fantasy was Defense Attorney John Randolph Neal of Knoxville, who last week was defeated in his own forlorn race for the Senate.) After the Dayton furor, Tom Stewart returned to obscurity...
Army Girl (Republic). Neatly directed, fast-moving action picture in which the novel theme is conflict between an army inspector (Preston Foster) and an old-line officer (H. B. Warner), engendered by plans to mechanize the latter's cavalry post...
...eight days. In none except Tennessee (see p. 13) was heat generated equal to Kentucky's. The source of Kentucky's heat was a pitcher of ice water. For the closing hours of the race between Governor "Happy" Chandler and Majority Leader "Dear Alben" Barkley for the latter's Senate seat were enlivened by the "poisoning" of Candidate Chandler (TIME...
Governor George Howard Earle, who pictures himself as Pennsylvania's counterpart of Franklin Roosevelt, once hailed the latter's plan to New Dealize the U. S. Supreme Court as "the greatest advance for democracy in our lifetime." Last week Mr. Earle, embroiled in a fight to clear his name of grave charges (political corruption, blackmail, extortion, conspiracy to defraud the Commonwealth), turned on Pennsylvania's Supreme Court, said it was threatening a "judicial dictatorship" like the Inquisition, the Bloody Assizes, the Court of the Star Chamber. He urged a special session of the Pennsylvania General Assembly...
Among the latter group, Germans are outstanding. In the past decade they have succeeded in scaling seemingly impregnable peaks all over the world. That the Alpine Eigerwand (wall of the ogre) resisted their perennial attacks piqued German mountaineers. One morning last fortnight a pair of Austrians named Harrer & Kastarek, equipped with provisions for five days, left the base of Mt. Eiger, began to assail the ogre that had swallowed nine daredevils since the summer of 1935. Next morning two Bavarians, Voerg & Heckmaier, followed the first pair...