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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week) : Up Seattle's Queen Anne Hill and into a lavatory in Kinnear Park playground marches Relentless Regan. On the backs of envelopes he pencils two notes: "I can't stand the gaff." "I am crazy." Then Relentless Regan, within earshot of a group of laughing children, pumps a bullet into his brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs, Jul. 26, 1937 | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

...Asked at a session of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Home Town Club in Hyde Park whether the President would run for a third term, Mrs. Roosevelt replied, "I hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Roosevelt Week: Jul. 19, 1937 | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

...George Trivers, 20, whose mother was for eight years a chambermaid at Washington's Wardman Park Hotel and recently got a new job as charwoman in the Old House Office Building, Congressman Mitchell had high hopes. Trivers had to work his way through high school and Miner Teachers College, where he was an R.O.T.C. officer, sold Negro newspapers. He got a job with the National Youth Administration. Congressman Mitchell thought he was tough enough to fight his own battles, might force Annapolis and the Navy to swallow their lily-white tradition. Last week Patron Mitchell had a shock. George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: In Again, Out Again | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

...just babes in the woods." Last week the "Babes" started out of the woods. Before the luncheon in Rockefeller Center the directors of Alleghany Corp. and The Chesapeake Corp., most substantial trees in the dark forest of Van Sweringen holding companies, met in Mr. Young's swank Park Avenue apartment, voted to merge the two in a new Chesapeake Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Babes Out of Woods | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

...England") have lived quietly at St. Albans cultivating their private zoo. Their friend, the Duke of Windsor, borrowed the Yule yacht Nahlin for his cruise last summer. When the Yules visited Manhattan last May they avoided socialites and reporters with equal discrimination, went for long walks in Central Park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Jute | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

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