Word: master
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Settling back in his chair at Hyde Park, Franklin Roosevelt, master politician, last week delivered to the press a lecture on political morality. It was "immoral," he said, for some 20,000 Republicans in Idaho to have voted in the Democratic primary to nominate Representative D. Worth Clark over New Dealish Senator James P. Pope (TIME, Aug. 22). Such crossing of party lines, he said, defeated the purpose of the primary system, because members of one party could pick puny opponents for their own party's candidates to beat. As in Idaho, it would be "immoral" for Republicans...
...following the great Japanese earthquake of 1923 a young police captain, Masahiko Amakasu, held in his custody a Socialist leader, Sakai Osugi. Amakasu was a member of a group of young Japanese firebrands who vehemently denounced internationalism, who were then seriously beginning a successful struggle to make the army master of the Japanese Government. In cold blood, with his own hands, Captain Amakasu strangled his internationally-minded prisoner. He deputed to a subordinate the less important job of garroting Osugi's wife and 10-year...
Died. Gustav A. Weidhaas, 62, Broadway's No. 1 creator of stage "props" and trick effects; of heart disease; in Bronxville, N. Y. Sometime master handyman for Belasco, Ziegfeld, Joe Cook and Billy Rose, Weidhaas manufactured such varied marvels as the dragon for the Metropolitan Opera's Siegfried, jellied lobster (which would bounce) for Dinner at Eight, pet snakes for You Can't Take It With...
...know or should know, you cannot ever get your sheepskin from Harvard until you know how to swim, and so you will be taught will nilly if you are among the five per cent who don't know how to master the brine when you get here. If you are aquatically minded, swimming in the gala Indoor Athletic Building pool will lure you sooner or later, and the Crimson swimming teams, under Coach Hall Ulen, are a pride of Harvard...
Died. Antonio Ajello, 78, master candlemaker; of a heart attack; in The Bronx, New York. To Mussolini, Pope Pius XI, Lindbergh, Galli-Curci, Marie of Rumania, many another big & little wig have gone sweet-scented Ajello tapers, fashioned from a formula that has been a family secret for 165 years. Most famed Ajello candle, world's largest, is 18 feet high and five feet around, weighs almost a ton, cost $3,700. Raised by public subscription in 1921 as a memorial to Enrico Caruso, it now stands in the Church of Our Lady of Pompeii (Italy), where it burns...