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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed a bill authorizing the Interior Department to distribute power from Fort Peck (Mont.) Dam, sent it to the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, May 16, 1938 | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...earning $1,000,000 for his two best years. Before he outgrew his small-boy roles (Oliver Twist, Peck's Bad Boy, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn) his total earnings were estimated as high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Kid | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...Byron Kantack '36 and William H. Peck, Jr., members of the Campbell-Ely Law Club won the Scott Club Prize for the best brief submitted in the qualifying round of the Ames Competition, for second year students, it was announced yesterday by the Board of Student Advisors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCOTT LAW CLUB PRIZE GOES TO KANTACK, PECK | 1/11/1938 | See Source »

Married. John Leslie ("Jackie") Coogan, 23, who earned fame & fortune at the age of four by appearing with Charles Spencer Chaplin in The Kid (later in Peck's Bad Boy, Oliver Twist, Little Robinson Crusoe) ; to Betty Grable, 20, famed rather for her long-standing (three year) engagement to Coogan than for her cinema roles (Old Man Rhythm, Follow the Fleet); during a recess in the production of College Swing (in which Miss Grable is the lead and Coogan acts a bit part); in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 29, 1937 | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...newt-problems before the League of Nations. End comes, of course, when the newts, armed by now and tired of it all, rise against their masters and begin blowing up dams, breakwaters, shorelines and continents while mankind, in a dither, retreats to the mountains. There Author Capek (pronounced Chah-peck) leaves them, with the issue for mankind still in doubt, but definitely ominous-looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Genus Molge | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

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