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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yesterday in the absence of both Governor Chandler and Lieut. Governor Johnson, Governor pro tern J. E. Wise, reinstated the 17,000 with a blanket reappointment...

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

Unlike active Dr. Walter Lawrence Bierring of Des Moines, 1934-35 president of the A.M.A., who had a leg amputated many years ago, Dr. Mason will be unable to perform his presidential duties. Those continue pro tern on the conscientious shoulders of President James McLester, professor of nutrition at the University of Alabama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pre-Convention Amputation | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

...Romance Tern Aside...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

While the activities of Lawrence are the principal focus of the volume. Edmonds has deliberately tern aside the veils of romance which have made his subject an almost legendary character by fitting them into the whole pattern of contemporary events. But this is not a part of the general fad of debunking history for in his true surroundings and with an understanding of his natural abilities and human faults, we cannot fall to appreciate more fully the work of this soldier who was also a mechanical genius and brilliant archaeologist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

...horse trade,'' retire him at the first chance. Besides, if Mr. Olson should resign to go to the Senate, his Lieutenant Governor Hjalmar Peterson would almost automatically become the Farmer-Labor candidate for Governor in 1936. What Governor Olson obviously needed was a Senator pro tern, someone who would take the job for a. year, then quit willingly and help elect Floyd Olson to the U. S. Senate. Who would be so likely to fill this bill as the man whom Mr. Olson had picked to be Governor after him? Next autumn they could politely change places...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Senator Pro Tem | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

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