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...more trouble than it was worth, now go after it. Loan companies, car dealers, etc. find Negroes excellent credit risks. There are signs that the Negro has begun to develop a large, strong middle class. Some Negro leaders, in fact, believe?and they do not consider it a bad thing???that the Negro is turning into the nation's new Babbitt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The U. S. Negro, 1953 | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

Aimee Semple McPherson was out for Merriam, picturing Upton Sinclair as "a red devil." Seeress Gene Dennis consulted the stars, predicted that Acting Governor Merriam would win, the election. The Literary Digest poll said the same thing???2½-to-1. The gamblers' money had switched to Merriam at 5-to-1. Almost as hysterical as his opponents, Sinclair charged that "208 experienced gangsters" had been brought from New York to substitute "stuffed" ballot boxes for the official ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: California Finale | 11/12/1934 | See Source »

...Play's The Thing???On de-scandalizing a prima donna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Showing in Manhattan | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...Play's The Thing???Dramatist Molnar and Actor Blinn conspire to laugh the hiss out of scandal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Jan. 17, 1927 | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

...insured their love against familiarity by living apart six months of the year. Ellis made his headquarters in a Brixton flat, where he abides today, aged 67, in the shy philosophical detachment that he has preserved for 30 years to speculate upon how to make life a whole thing?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Dancing Master | 5/10/1926 | See Source »

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