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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Putting over big deals with the aid of champagne suppers and chorus girls was standard business technique of the roaring 1920s. Trying that technique on representatives of the biggest business in the land-the U. S. Government-was last week among the allegations brought against William P. Buckner Jr., 31, a smooth, sporty lawyer who lived in The Bronx but could boast kinship with Thomas A. Buckner of New York Life Insurance Co. (uncle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Bonds & Blondes | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...Fusion ticket, led by explosive, progressive Fiorello LaGuardia. It was Kenneth Simpson who groomed the advertising profession's gift to politics, Representative Bruce Barton. And Simpson it was who had so very nearly overturned the strong, widely respected regime of Governor Herbert Lehman with the G. O. P.'s most dazzling rookie of the decade, District Attorney Tom Dewey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Battle of Hastings | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...issued for 1939 in London, from five to 29 lines. This week, as the Aquitania neared Manhattan, many thumbed Who's Who for what it says about this Cunarder's No. 1 and No. 2 passengers of the week, the Edens. Namely, on p...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: From Fitzhardinge Street | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

Anthony Eden (Fri. 10 p. m. NBC-Blue, MBS; 10:30 p. m. CBS) addresses the National Association of Manufacturers' Congress of American Industry. Subject: "Democracies and the Modern World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Programs Previewed: Dec. 12, 1938 | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

Kirsten Flagstad (Sat. 1:40 p. m. NBC-Red) heads the Metropolitan cast in Wagner's Siegfried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Programs Previewed: Dec. 12, 1938 | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

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