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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Milton's appointment was a God-given gift to two rival Manhattan newspapers, David Stern's Post and the Scripps-Howard World-Telegram, which were last week running featured Frank Hague series. Among the facts dug up from old investigations was that John Milton was Frank Hague's personal banker. John Milton's checks, for instance, paid for the $6,250-per-year mayor's $125,000 estate. The mayor always reimbursed his lawyer in cash. When investigators started to probe John Milton's own affairs, he blandly declared that he had just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: Birthday Present | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

WILMINGTON, DEL. Jan 25; Harvard will be one of 18 American colleges which will have a post-graduate student working under a Du Pout Chemical research fellowship next year, it was announced at the company here today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DUPONT FELLOWSHIP | 1/26/1938 | See Source »

...sand-bitten old Clark Alvord prospected in the sere Nevada hills, trudged the desert studying Indian lore, managed the post office and a general store in the desert town of Nelson (pop. 17). By night he liked to write friendly compliments to his favorite film star, Marion Davies, whose pictures he frequently drove the 40 rough miles to Las Vegas to see. Fortnight ago Prospector Alvord died, and last week his will was read. To his kin went 45% of his estate, to Actress Davies the rest. The estate: $1,000 cash, money due him on a $9,000 mining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Testament | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

...Harrisburg Telegraph and Providence Star-Tribune. Now he has agreed to stay put for a year on the Record. If Tommy proves as big as his job, J. David Stern Sr. will be able to turn nearly all his attention to his New York Post, which in four years he has boosted from 86,000 circulation to nearly 300,000, by tooting one of the loudest horns on the Roosevelt bandwagon and by giving away (for coupons and cash) a steady stream of dictionaries, atlases, Dickens' works and medical advice books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Stern For Stern | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

...Radio Today, Outdoor Advertising, Inc., Publishers' Information Bureau, Editor & Pub Usher and Printers' Ink. *Eight in order: Saturday Evening Post, Col lier's, American Weekly, Good Housekeeping, TIME, LIFE, Woman's Home Companion, Ladies' Home Journal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Time & Space | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

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