Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lanky, linen-suited figure of Will Rogers, as Judge Priest, blends admirably well. The good judge dispenses juleps as well as justice, and tempers the letter with the spirit of the law. But at length his benevolent reign is threatened by the presence of a political rival in the person of a blustering, sycophantic old ex-senator. Moreover, the family of young Rome, (Tom Brown) objects to his affection for the town school teacher, (Anita Louise) who, though pretty, is not of quality folks. Anita Louise, in this role, reminds one of magnolia blossoms in the spring...
Opposition to the Sinclair candidacy was focused on the plump, round-faced and by no means inspiring person of Republican Frank Finley Merriam. A small-bore, Iowa-born politician who was elected Lieutenant Governor in 1930, Frank Merriam of Long Beach became Acting Governor when "Sunny Jim" Rolph died last June. The San Francisco general strike and a shrewd stratagem won him his nomination for the coming election. Prior to the strike, onetime Governor Clement Calhoun Young had been assured Republican support by no less a faction than Herbert Hoover & friends. When big industrialists began to beseech Acting Governor Merriam...
...Bishop Meisser. He was placed under arrest, forbidden to leave his house, told that he had been removed as head of his diocese. Remembering lessons learned in last June's "blood purge," the S. S. Troopers were careful to offer no threats to the Bishop's person, to give him complete liberty within the building. Bishop Hans Meisser puttered quietly up & downstairs all afternoon...
...that it is omitted from most British school directories, settled back to its usual existence last week, after the exciting thought that the pale little boy of 11, the one with the bangs and the bony knees, had suddenly become a King, and for a moment the most spotlighted person in the world. Before breakfast Peter II of Jugoslavia was hauled from his dormitory bed and brought down to the headmaster's office. His old tutor, a man named Parrott, was there too. The boy learned that his father had had a serious automobile accident, that he must...
...stumbling block remains, however, in the person of Kuziora, brilliant sophomore back on the Holy Cross team and Freddy Mosely, the Crimson's hope on open field runs. The burning question is: "Are Kuziora and Moseley going to play?" Only a few days ago TIME OUT had the temerity to take Holy Cross at its word and say that Kuziora was definitely out of the game. But Io and behold, since that time some enterprising scribe stated that the Erie, Pa. lad was ready to go. TIME OUT was taken to task for his rashness but he can only...