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...unexcitingly being chosen State Commander of the American Legion (and keeping the Legion out of politics). When Long launched his Share the Wealth Plan, fast-growing Lake Charles, with 20 oil fields in the region, was still growing, and Sam Jones had gone back to private practice. The smartest man in Louisiana, with all his bodyguards around him, was shot in the Capitol he had built; and Sam Jones's career had also taken a new turn: Louise Gambrell, 33, reappeared on the scene, her first husband having died, and married Sam Jones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Twelve Years (Concluded) | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

...Club's canopied entrance. In the dining room a name band was playing, an elaborate floor show was just beginning. Off the lobby was a gaming room with tables for roulette, craps, black jack, high-low. Reporter Priddy recognized some of Lake County's plumpest dowagers, smartest débutantes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Just Just | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

According to the considered opinion of the neighborhood, Miss Claudius was not insane. She was the smartest person in those parts. Everyone knew that she "had money." She also had a niece in North Carolina. Once Mrs. McGee remarked that the niece would certainly enjoy all that money some day. "She can enjoy it," said Miss Claudius. "I like my life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: I Like My Life | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...persuading his roisterous fraternity fellows to pay a farmer for four stolen turkeys. He was a starveling lawyer, writing orations for practice in the hot, sandy afternoons; galloping his horse to & from a young man's fun in the Kansas night. He was the smartest sprig in Idaho, taking up for downtrod Chinese, farmers, Mormons while he served the corporations which owned the mines, the timber and the Republican Party in the State. He was the bridegroom of blonde Mamie McConnell (whose papa was Governor of Idaho). He was a renegade Republican, going down with the Democrats and Bryan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Man in a Toga | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

Although expenses are small (under $500 a year for tuition, board, room and books), nearly half of Ohio State's under graduates have to work to meet them. For 425 of its smartest boys, the university provides barracks-like sleeping quarters and meals under its stadium seats at $120 a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Service Station | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

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