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...Ralph Gunn Sucher (pronounced "Soo-shay") of Peoria, Ill., now of Washington and Manhattan, was once secretary to the late great Senator "Fighting Bob" La Follette of Wisconsin, married his daughter Mary (since divorced). After long experience as a Washington news hawk, he turned lawyer, is now counsel to the New York Power Authority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Civil Servant's Romance | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...punch and ken. he has Robin's form and flair down pat. If prankish Actor Fairbanks was a man's Robin Hood, handsome, romantic Actor Flynn performs for everybody else. A head-thumping, sword-swishing, bow-twanging technicolor attempt to foreshorten the popular episodes of the Soo-year-old saga into the perspective of a single connected story. Robin Hood 1938 makes the last of Richard I's crusading years its period, draws a bead on Regent Prince John's tax oppression that should bring a nod from every liberty-loving Britisher who can afford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 16, 1938 | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...east end of the lake, tugs had cut a channel from Sault Ste. Marie to open water. The wind from the west closed this, packed miles & miles of ice into Whitefish Bay. Clamped fast in the glittering rubble, more than 50 high-riding ore boats westbound from the Soo Canal stayed strung out there for two days, like black beetles stuck in cake frosting. In the Straits of Mackinac 50 miles south the car ferry Chief Wawatan cleared a path of blue water for four freighters, led them across Lake Michigan to Escanaba, returned to the Straits to break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Lake Opening | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

...Milwaukee; Burlington; Chicago & North Western; Rock Island; Great Northern; Illinois Central; Soo Line. Chicago Great Western has since dropped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Resilient Scheme | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

...partitioning carriers to operate?429 mi. to either Chicago Great Western or Milwaukee; 197 mi. to Burlington; 140 mi. to Chicago & North Western; 92 mi. to Rock Island; 47 mi. to Great Northern. In addition there are several proposals for joint operation, some of which include Illinois Central and Soo Line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Partition Petition | 9/23/1935 | See Source »

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