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...free-speech issue is child's play compared to the brass-tack problem of carrying New Jersey for the New Deal, and last week Franklin Roosevelt sent his No. 3 Cabinet officer, Secretary of War Harry Woodring, to Hudson County to do business with Boss Hague. The occasion was a rally for the Senate candidacy of William Harvey Johnson Ely, who has been administering WPA in New Jersey and who, though a Hague protege, has promised to be a 100% New Dealer. Secretary Woodring's business with Boss Hague was to find out whether, in return for continued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New Jersey Deal | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

...understood that Harlow, members of the team, William Bingham '16, Tack Hardwick, former Harvard All-American player, and Dean Hanford will be among the speakers. It is expected that the band will be present to lead songs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENTS PLAN RALLY FOR HARLOW BEFORE TIGER TILT | 10/25/1938 | See Source »

...even this sturdy son of Hard Tack would not have enjoyed crosscountry travel 25 years ago, when most thoroughbreds were shipped in boxcars attached to slow freight trains. Today horses travel in specially built, steam-heated horse cars attached to first-class passenger trains, have all the comforts of their home stables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Seasoned Biscuit | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...Conductor Stokowski received two U. S. newspaper correspondents, but again refused to answer questions about Actress Garbo. "I have a right to my private life when I want it," said he. "One must think in solitude to create. That is what I am doing now." The reporters tried another tack, asked him his favorite cinema stars. Stoky chose Charles Boyer and John Barrymore. Asked for his choice in actresses, he shook his head, "Let's go to another subject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Idyl | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

...Connally's loyal little band?Georgia's Russell, North Carolina's Bailey, South Carolina's James Byrnes, Tennessee's Kenneth McKellar, Louisiana's Ellender, and Pat Harrison?began their operations they had one stroke of luck. Illinois' porky, cautious William Dieterich had persuaded the Judiciary Committee to tack on an amendment exempting counties (i. e., Illinois' Cook) from liabilities arising from gang murders and labor violence. This gave Kenneth McKellar an opportunity to bait Illinois'. Ham Lewis into a voluble debate on Chicago jurisprudence. North Carolina's Robert Reynolds helped out by discussing Europe, the Orient, the British Isles, South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Black's White | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

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