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Since 1919, he has elected five Governors. The last one was the incumbent, A. Harry Moore. Moore's Republican rival in 1937, Clergyman Lester H. Clee, carried 15 of Jersey's 21 counties. But when Hudson's poll was reported, Hague's Moore was found to have won by 45,266 votes. In vain did Pastor Clee charge that the Hudson vote was fraudulent. Ballot boxes were straightway locked up, Hague-controlled election officials and judges refused to let anybody get near them, and Pastor Clee went back to his church. Many an unproved charge...
Congressmen got a jolt last month from Inventor Lester Pence Barlow. He told them that he had concocted a liquid oxygen-carbon explosive - and named it "Glmite" - similar to the famed German bombs which in Barcelona are supposed to have killed people a quarter-mile away (TIME, March 25). Army and Navy men remained skeptical, but last week both Army and Navy came around; agreed to formulate in writing terms for a scientific test to prove conclusively the effectiveness of Glmite, promised to pay the costs of the experiment...
...Jaunty Lester Pence Barlow has pondered on how to make a living, how to redistribute wealth, how to make liquor bottles unrefillable. But what has mainly wrinkled his brow has been how to end war. Like a good inventor, he tried to solve his problem the easy way: a death-dealing explosive which would annihilate whole regiments, spoil everyone's stomach for further fighting. Last week little, stocky, 53-year-old Mr. Barlow traveled from his office in Baltimore, Md. to Washington, and bounded into a meeting of the Senate Military Affairs Committee. In a scarily matter-of-fact...
Undergraduates participating in the second panel of discussion on "Propaganda at Harvard" will be John M. London '41, Jack E. Bronston '42, Lester G. Hawkins, Jr. '41, and Roland E. Shaine...
...Pudding stepped into no man's land last night in a battle raging between models and debs at the Statler and after putting on a show for the crowd copped a prize judged by Helena Rubinstein, Peter Arno, Lester Conover, and Dahl...