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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bondster Buckner's first gesture after his arrest (with his partner, William J. Gillespie, 37, of Brooklyn) was to tele phone to his friend Cinemactress Loretta Young in Hollywood. About the party at the Carlton he said: "That part about girls being employed by me and my asso ciates - ridiculous! It would be a terrible thing, wouldn't it, if our statesmen in Washington could be influenced in such a manner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Bonds & Blondes | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

Candidate Foley advertised in the news papers that his three principal rivals, including Boss Curley himself, were only a deceptive front for New England Tele phone & Telegraph Co., which Candidate Tobin until recently worked for as a divi sion manager. Charged with the duty of deciding for his Back Bay votes which among the contestants was the least of four evils, Republican Leader Henry Parkman, Jr., who in the last mayoral election came in a poor fourth with 29,000, finally settled on Candidate Tobin. That many another anti-Curley Bostonian had done likewise appeared when young Maurice Tobin rolled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ELECTIONS: Curley Cue | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

...explained in Manhattan last week that for radiotelephony between fixed points, Bell's coaxial cable provides "a piece of the ether which has been segregated from all the other ether in the world." Because it can carry a frequency band 1,000,000 cycles wide and can "pipe" tele vision underground for hundreds of miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Coaxial Debut | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...satisfaction of sifting through a stack of congratulatory messages in recognition of the oak he had nurtured from his original Acorn members. He had telegrams from Illinois' Governor Henry Horner, Senators Burton K. Wheeler and Millard E. Tydings, and Alf Landon. Longest of all, the Landon tele gram was dispatched from Topeka, Kans., although Mr. Landon that day was only a few blocks away in Chicago's Congress Hotel. Wrote Franklin D. Roosevelt from the White House: "You have demonstrated . . . that problems which can not be solved by individual effort can be met by co-operative action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Cooperative Grocers | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

...York City take Publisher Howard at his word. Manhattan publishers are notoriously close-mouthed about the balance sheets of their papers. Best opinion is that all New York newspapers cost way too much to run, none pays a respectable return on the money invested in it. If the World-Tele-gram, on which a $1,350,000 exploitation fund was lavished in its first eight months, has yet had any profits to share with the Brothers Pulitzer, the news has not been made public. Its circulation, never far over 400,000, has lately remained about 100,000 above the arch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Hawkins for Howard | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

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