Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Barbara was at South Paris' cinemansion watching a jungle film, Booloo, when the news of her father's conviction reached her. Mascara streaking her cheeks, she ran out sobbing. Next day, Boston announced that any night club contracting for her services would be closed...
...Wisconsin, Democrats were dismayed by news that the La Follettes, Governor Phil and Senator Bob, will not as in 1932 support Democratic Senator Francis Ryan Duffy for re-election late this summer. This year, the La Follettes let it be known that they will help the winner of the Progressive nomination-Representative Thomas R. Amlie or Herman Ekern, onetime State Attorney General-after next month's primary. Possible result: a special appearance in Wisconsin by Franklin Roosevelt in behalf of Senator Duffy...
Chicago Daily News Cartoonist Vaughn Richard Shoemaker last week suggested that Father Divine might have occasion to borrow a lawn mower for his new 500-acre estate across the Hudson River from Franklin Roosevelt's "Krum Elbow" (see cut). The possibility of such a call soon became open to question. In New York...
...Delayed imposing limits on speculative trading in grain. Commodity Exchange Commission let slip the news that the effective date for these rules (TIME, June 27) had been postponed indefinitely since both the Chicago Board of Trade and Cargill Inc. had protested that the rules exceeded CEC's constitutional prerogative...
...player. At St. Louis Country Day School, his headmaster remembers him as having "no froth, no social stirrings." At Yale, where he graduated in 1928, his social stirrings were inadequate to get him into a fraternity, but he did make the tennis team and the editorial staff of the News...