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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...party in a border-town free-for-all in Georgia, in 1783. He "inquired so hotly as to who struck him that a national saying therefrom crept into existence . . . he left $1,000 to whoever should name the man." Just 100 years later Mrs. Jenny G. Covely of Athol, N. Y. applied for the legacy, said her father (one Tillerton) had done the deed...
...letter was written, of course, by Franklin Roosevelt's son-in-law, John Boettiger, publisher of Hearst's Seattle Post-Intelligencer. It got under Elliott's hide. From Pinehurst, N. C. he retorted to Brother-in-law Boettiger in his best literary style...
...Bill. Husky, leathery Lindsay Carter Warren, Congressman from Washington, N. C., more than half won the fight by the way he drafted this year's bill. He listed the points on which last year's bill was attacked and simply left most of them out this time. He gave the President power to alter the setup of all executive agencies-except certain ones, specifically listed. (Important exceptions in the bill as passed by the Senate: Civil Service, Communications, Power, Trade, Interstate Commerce, Securities & Exchange, Employes' Compensation, Maritime, Tariff Commissions, Army Engineers Corps, Coast Guard, NLRB, Board...
...announcer with a portable microphone. Even in a toned-down version this drama scared NBC. But when it was finally broadcast in Holy Week, under the auspices of the National Council of Catholic Men, The Living God was widely praised, nowhere condemned. Next week, again in collaboration with N. C. C. M., NBC is to broadcast it on 56 stations (April...
Married. Thomas Dixon Jr., 75, onetime Baptist preacher who made a fortune from his book, The Clansman (filmed as The Birth of a Nation); and May Donovan, 44, his literary assistant for 18 years; he for the second time, she for the first; in Raleigh, N...