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...Wheeler dirt; finding none, they made some, concocted a charge that Wheeler had used his Senatorial influence to obtain illegal oil leases for a client. After waiting a year for the case to come to trial, Wheeler was acquitted in ten minutes. As the verdict came in, a tele gram arrived from Washington telling of the birth of a daughter. Wheeler named her Marion Montana, the Marion after "Fighting Bob" (Robert Marion) La Follette Sr. On his 80th birthday, in Colum bus, Ohio, Jan. 26, old man Daugherty said he bore Wheeler no ill will, thought he would probably make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Men A-Plenty | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...wished to send a girl a birthday wire, poor clam, I'd use a Western Union predigested tele gram-That'll show you what I am: Just a boob, a Simple Sam, But I have my one rebellion, and I stick to it, by damn-For in one thing, I insist, I'm a misbehaviorist, As heroic as they were at Valley Forge: With amazement hear me speak My accomplishment unique, I NEVER CALLED A PULLMAN PORTER GEORGE. If you want the other stanzas, you can find them in the files of the SRI.. Will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 18, 1940 | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

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 »

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