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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the Revolutionary War one Clement Corbin fought with the Connecticut Regulars. Mr. Corbin might have become a famed hero, a traitor or a general. He did none of the three and was ignored by U. S. history until last week when, after 150 years, the ultimate result of his pugnacity finally became apparent in Washington, D. C. It was that his great-great-granddaughter, Mrs. Henry Martyn Robert Jr. of Annapolis, Md. was elected President General of the Daughters of the American Revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Continental Congress | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...marrying a rich boy," she piped, "she is mistaken. He hasn't a cent. He's a pauper." Last November Betty married Jackie anyway, began to support him on her Paramount Pictures salary of $500 a week. Since then Jackie has earned exactly $1,000, the result of two weeks' work with his wife in Paramount's College Swing, released this week...

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

...Discussed legislation to divorce marketing from other phases of the petroleum industry. This is supposed to be a New Deal objective as one result of the conviction, in Madison, Wis. four months ago, of 16 major oil companies and 30 of their officers of fixing the market price on petroleum products at the expense of the public. A Senate subcommittee is now considering a bill introduced by Senator Guy M. Gillette of Iowa to divorce oil production and sale much as the New Deal divorced banking and underwriting in 1933. Last week President J. Howard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Government's Week: May 2, 1938 | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...believes, "are trying to execute the plans of their father. He had an idea that the way for the third party was to split the electoral college and throw the election into the House of Representatives. Here old party lines would be smashed," and a new ralignmen of parties result. Holcombe then sighted the case of John Quincy Adams as an example...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Progressives to Have a Better Chance Than in 1924 | 4/30/1938 | See Source »

Unusual requests are frequent occurrences in the life of a newspaper, but last night a Harvard man of '28 came through with the month's tops. He wanted clippings of every item containing the result of a Harvard-Yale encounter in which his Alma Mater came out victorious. "Anything will do," he asserted, "from football games to chess clashes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 4/28/1938 | See Source »

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