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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...previous record holder was famed T. P. ("Tay Pay") O'Connor, member for Liverpool, whose death in 1929 terminated 49 years in Parliament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: If Necessary | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...think he might be picked-which would mean that he would almost automatically become Prime Minister. In his great rush Mr. Menzies slipped, fell, sprained his arm. He finally appeared at the meeting with his arm in a sling and was at once chosen leader of the U. A. P...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Hurtful Hurry | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...days later Governor General Lord Cowrie asked him to form a cabinet. The big question was whether Mr. Menzies, who is forceful but not tactful, could get the conservative United Country Party to cooperate with the more liberal U. A. P. as Joe Lyons had skilfully done. As he began to line up a panel, again in a big hurry, he met with another accident which sprained his spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Hurtful Hurry | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

Birthdays. Shirley Temple, her tenth, in Hollywood; Princess Elizabeth, her 13th, in London; Adolf Hitler, his soth, in Berlin (see p...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 1, 1939 | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

Married. Douglas Fairbanks Jr., 30, onetime husband of Cinemactress Joan Crawford; and Mary Lee Epling Hartford, 28, onetime wife of Chain-Store Scion (A & P) George Huntington Hartford; in Westwood. Calif. Best man: Douglas Fairbanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 1, 1939 | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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