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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief Little Wolf (né Tenario), a Navajo tribesman who started as a welterweight (145 lb.) and worked up to heavyweight, is the current red-skinned attraction. The Chief trains on raw meat, spends his spare time weaving blankets, fashioning bracelets and necklaces. Considered the Beau Brummell of the wrestling world, he sports huge sombreros, checked suits, fancy vests, embroidered boots. If his specialty, the Navajo war whoop, fails to prostrate his opponent, he employs the Indian Death Lock, a crushing leg hold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baba & Behemoths | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

Could you spare the space to print a picture of, and a little information about this man Sullivan? He may not make news as does Boake Carter but, like TIME, he knows how to poignantly report it. W. E. HAYDEN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 11, 1936 | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

This was the largest representation Communists have ever won in France. It meant that, with the Socialists of varying degrees of pinkness, the Popular Front had an overwhelming victory of 378 seats, enough and to spare to guarantee the formation of the next Cabinet when the Chamber reconvenes on June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Left Turn | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

Leonard Porter Ayres describes himself as a "drab old man." Spare, greying, humorous, he is executive vice president of Cleveland Trust Co. and the author of that bank's famed Business Bulletin, a little four-page monthly that is read by at least 40,000 people and quoted by the Press for millions more. .In simple charts and simpler English he "tells things which the bank's directors and customers want to know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Statistical Seer | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

...hopefully of a 1936 production of 2,000,000 sets compared to an estimate of more than 4,000,000 for household units. Since about 4,500,000 cars will probably be sold this year, nearly one out of every two may carry a radio as naturally as a spare tire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Radio Boom | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

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