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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Your splendid coverage of politics in South Carolina . . . will delight many a native son and provoke many another. Your statement "the most overwhelmingly Democratic State in the Union" is interesting in light of the fact that your very story of the despond of politics in the Stale proves the contention of recent years that South Carolina has become "a too numerous democracy," which was the very thing that its founders would not have it, and which it was not in the heyday of its great statesmen and leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 14, 1936 | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

...good fortune this year in picking up Le Linge, a splendid Manet, and two very important Cezannes, The Drinker and The Woodchopper which had been held in a private collection in Switzerland, and I have four Matisse interiors, new ones. It's an amazing thing about Matisse. He's getting on in years, you know, and everyone thought he had shot his bolt in art. He's 67 or 68 years old and he hadn't shown anything in two years. But this year he had a show in Paris that would knock your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: 75th Cezanne | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

...LEGISLATIVE AND EXECUTIVE RECORD OF 25 YEARS AND MY CO-OPERATION WITH THE CITRUS INDUSTRY AND CONSISTENT ADHERENCE TO DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES PLUS A HISTORICAL PIONEER FAMILY RECORD EXTENDING OVER 100 YEARS IN FLORIDA MAINLY CAUSED MY ELECTION. FLORIDA HAS BEEN HONORED IN BEING SELECTED AS THE HOME OF MANY SPLENDID MEN AND WOMEN FROM NORTHERN STATES WHOM YOU DUB PENURIOUS YANKEES BUT WHOM WE KNOW TO BE AMONG THE FINEST AMERICAN CITIZENS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 7, 1936 | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

First stop was at Fort Morgan, Colo., where a thousand people and a brass band surrounded the rear platform. Carefully primed as to his whereabouts, Governor Landon declared: "I am very glad to have the opportunity of starting my campaign in this splendid Republican county of Morgan. . . . There are many things which I would like to talk to you about but time is short. . . ." Chuff-chuff-and the special was on its way to Sterling, where another crowd and another brass band turned out at the station. With "sugar beets" ringing in his ears, Nominee Landon stepped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Livingstone's Travels | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

...same mass as the heart of a hydrogen atom, but they are much smaller. Dr. George Braxton Pegram and his associates at Columbia have set the neutron diameter at one ten-trillionth of an inch. Unlike electrons, positrons, protons and deuterons, neutrons have no electric charge. Hence they make splendid projectiles for bombardment since they are not repelled by the positive charges on the atomic nuclei. Alpha particles knock neutrons in quantity out of beryllium and other light elements at speeds up to 30,000 miles per second. When the neutron hits a nucleus it either bounces off, transforming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: New Tools | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

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