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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There lanky, seamy-faced Vice President L. Wallace Jeffery of T. N. R. P. in offices occupying one whole floor of a big lakeside building, has checked the 1.000 or so candidates standing for the 435 House seats and 32 Senate vacancies. Mr. Jeffery, assisted by Dr. Townsend's dark-haired young son Robert as secretary-treasurer, has found only 155 Congressional candidates worthy of T. N. R. P. endorsement.† About two-thirds of them are Republicans, including the three incumbents already re-elected in Maine and Senator Gerald P. ("Neutrality") Nye of North Dakota...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACHUSETTS: Republican Realism | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

...California's bumblingly conservative Governor Merriam is, curiously, the only State office candidate officially endorsed by T. N. R. P. Reason: he has done homage to the Plan in his desperate fight against Democrat Culbert Olson and "Thirty Dollars Every Thursday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACHUSETTS: Republican Realism | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

...built like a young Percheron (175 lbs.), so strong that your father, the county jailer, calls you his "handyman" and says you can handle the women prisoners "like sacks of potatoes," you are not likely to have many beaus. Such was the case of Lulu Belle Kimel of Lexington, N. C. Though she was bursting with health and warm-hearted to a degree, the boys did not consider her the village belle. James Godwin, 19, a tough and knowing High Point boy whom they brought to the jail two months ago for beating up and robbing his grandfather, seemed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Lulu Belle's Beau | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

Tuffy was a 300-lb. lion owned by Joseph Dobish, Wildwood, N. J. boardwalk sideshow concessionaire. Last year Business-getter Dobish worked up an act called "The Motordrome Wall of Death." In this act, Dobish's wife drove a racing car at breakneck speed around a steep-sided wooden bowl, with Tuffy in a sidecar beside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Terror in Wildwood | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

...Pottersville, N. J.; Matamoras, Pa., and Branchville, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Frontier | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

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