Word: p
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yonkers. At the wheel of a borrowed car-because too many people know his-he set out. On the way another car pulled alongside. A man got out, holding a handkerchief to his face. "Go to the drugstore on the corner of 19th Street and Eighth Avenue about 9 p. m.," said the stranger, and disappeared...
With the world's eyes on war headlines, with grave-faced Franklin Roosevelt dominating the U. S. scene (see p. p), 1940 Presidential aspirants had tough going last week. Hardest-hit was New Hampshire's plump New Deal denouncer, Senator Styles Bridges, who had planned a Western speaking tour. Least affected was Thomas Edmund Dewey, New York County's District Attorney, the jug-eared Galahad who smites crime...
...Dewey went home to Owosso, Mich, (pop. 14,500), to see his mother, Mrs. Anne Dewey.* He insisted his trip had nothing to do with politics. So he spent an hour talking to Iowa's G. O. P. boss, Harrison Spangler, sat up till midnight with Missouri's G. O. P. boss, Barak Mattingly and promised him to speak in St. Louis in October; he shook hands with 200 leading Illinois Republicans; on a high school athletic field he prayed for world peace. Each day he was photographed in every front-porch-campaign pose known to the prosaic...
...cultivator, do chores; he ate Mrs. Putnam's noonday "dinner" of home-cured ham, eggs, new potatoes, corn from the patch, fresh cherry pie. He played golf, suppressing his scores. Less pleasurably, he heard that FBI's John Edgar Hoover had jailed Lepke Buchalter (see p...
Last week the world's best correspondents cabled the greatest stories of their lives. In every capital of Europe they followed the swift unfolding of as big a crisis as war or its threat could make (see p. 32). No one of them could see it all. Its spread was too enormous, its moves too rapid and secret, its possibilities too terrifying. But because no crisis in history has been so fully reported, their accounts made a pattern, threw a strong light on the strength and weakness of the antagonists, whether the conflict was to be waged with diplomatic...