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...time the President can't knock you out, you're all right!" was "Happy" Chandler's attempt at cheerfulness after Franklin Roosevelt had departed. But that night at Bowling Green, in praising Kentucky's other Senator, Marvel Mills Logan, for standing "square like a rock" on a certain occasion, the President dealt the young Governor a painful backhand blow. Senator Logan explained that on the occasion referred to. "Happy" Chandler had gone to the White House with the proposal that Senator Logan be made a Federal judge so that Chandler could go to the Senate without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Hustings & History | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

...three slick models for the new 65-miles-per-hour, $396 Volkswagen, which Der Führer expects will one day be as much a part of every German's life as an Ersatz sausage in every pot. "This streamlined four-seater," barked the Fuhrer, "is a mechanical marvel. It can be bought on the installment plan for six Reichsmarks a week, including insurance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Joyous Lizzie | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

Beginning Alcoa's defense this week. Lawyer Smith retorted: "I marvel at a government that can charge in 104 paragraphs that we have never done any honest thing in our 50 years of existence. We do deny every charge made by the Government regarding malevolent intent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Alcoa Forest | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

...Challenging City Prosecutor Ralph E. Purves to a boxing match. When Prosecutor Purves declined, the mayor for no good reason boxed four well-photographed rounds with a Masked Marvel, knocked the Marvel down four times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WASHINGTON: Fighting Tailor | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

Blooming by day in the Radcliffe, Yard, but modestly retiring into a cellar at five o'clock every day, a four-foot tulip has been amazing passersby. This horticultural marvel, is, however, only a department store creation, built up from wire and paper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FREAKISH FOUR-FOOT TULIP ASTONISHES ALL RADCLIFFE | 5/4/1938 | See Source »

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