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Dates: during 1940-1949
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National Affairs (TIME, April 15, p. 20) concerning Oldster Hull-"Mr. Hull represents probably the last chance for U. S.citizens who want to vote for a man born in a log cabin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 6, 1940 | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...Beards, America In Midpassage, p. 137, satirically etch from Democratic campaign fodder-"Mr. Garner, in the revered American tradition, was born in a log cabin." Does TIME, Beards, or Democratic Campaign Book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 6, 1940 | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...John Garner's avowed birthplace was a log cabin no longer existing on Blossoms Prairie in East Texas, though it was not the nifty Log Cabin Maple Syrup-like cabin of 1932 campaign posters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 6, 1940 | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...anything unPresidential about Mr. Hull except perhaps his age (oldest President: William Henry Harrison, 68, who died one month after inauguration). Mr. Hull represents probably the last chance for U. S. citizens who want to vote for a man born in a log cabin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Men A-Plenty | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...composer can attain an authentically U. S. symphonic style, a spare, gangling, twangy Oklahoman named Roy Harris may well be the man. Born in a log cabin, Roy Harris is as independent as a Panhandle cowhand, as dryly American as the Dust Bowl where he spent his early childhood. When, in 1926, he ap peared in Eastern concert halls with an awkward, homemade symphonic piece un der his arm, critics took one look and de cided that here was music's own Joaquin Miller. Sent to Paris to study with famed Teacher Nadia Boulanger (TIME, Feb.28, 1938), Composer Harris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Home-Grown Composer | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

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