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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secretary, Richard, sadly embarrassed him by talking too much and out of turn. And midway of his first Legislature in Sacramento, Culbert Olson had learned enough to moan that the Laborites and assorted liberals who concerted to elect him had made a disastrous mistake. They let Republican conservatives retain control in the Senate, Democratic conservatives in the lower Assembly. Before it adjourned last week after the longest (133 days) biennial session in California history, California's Legislature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Olson's Luck | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...virtue of their three victories Saturday, Yale will retain the Edward S. Harkness trophy for another year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland Eight Outstrips Berkeley by Three Lengths for Only House Victory | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

Another recommendation, that men in group four, with three important extra-curricular activities, be guaranteed admission, also seemed unwise to the Council because, "The Masters and Central Committee need to retain, in this case as in others, discretionary power...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Council Demands New House To Alleviate Admission Dissatisfaction | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...Crimson are favored to take the measure of the Quakers and retain their slim lead in the League standings. Bob Fulton is still nursing a bruised arm received in the B. U. game, but he will probably be behind the plate today. The infield and outfield will be the same as the ones starting against the Terriers...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: STAHL NINE FACES VISITING QUAKERS | 5/19/1939 | See Source »

...Maryon Andrews Cooper Hewitt McCarter, 55, much-married (five times) Virginia belle who reportedly turned down an invitation from the Shah of Persia to head his harem; of cerebral apoplexy; in Manhattan. In 1936 her daughter, Heiress Ann Cooper Hewitt, charged Mrs. McCarter with mayhem: laving her sterilized to retain control of a $10,000,000 trust fund. Daughter Hewitt, who failed to press the charges, later married a mechanic, then a onetime bartender (TIME, March 27). Mrs. McCarter, driven into bankruptcy by extravagance and litigation, had been living on a trustee's allowance of $50 a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 8, 1939 | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

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