Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...valiant from a Webster, Mass, tavern, beefy Bundster Fritz Kuhn (already under indictment charged with filching Bund funds) had words with a policeman, who promptly tossed him into jail. Next morning Police Chief John Templeman released him on $54 bail, snapped: "He was just another wise guy who thought this was a hick town and he could stage one of them beer hall putsch things and be the dictator...
Forty thousand of his fellow citizens thought Wonderboy Smith could boot old Mayor Angelo Rossi out of his job, and signed a petition asking him to try. A good many others thought he would be easy to beat. Smart Paul Smith had a private poll taken and convinced himself he had a chance. Three hundred and fifty-six people who work for the Chronicle signed another petition begging him to stay on. So the 30-year-old, pint-size, freckle-faced boss of Mark Twain's and Bret Harte's paper decided to stick...
...rejoin Riskin in the fall as Frank Capra Productions, Inc. Since high-powered Screenwriters Gene Towne and Graham Baker have also set up shop for themselves this year (TIME, May 29), Hollywood saw a Trend. Though the Capra-Riskin production plans remained their secret, neither they nor anyone else thought they would have much trouble in financing as many pictures as they wanted to make, which will probably not be very many. "A good writer should be able to do two good pictures a year," Writer Riskin once remarked. "Unfortunately, we all do several more than that...
...Lawrence Waterway, very close to former governor Franklin Roosevelt's heart) made its annual report. In presenting a copy of their report to the President the Trustees noted that it "suggests a new line of approach to ... coordination of Government power enterprises with private power systems. ..." They thought it opportune" that their proposal for cooperation "follows so closely upon the annual report of Chairman Groesbeck of Electric Bond & Share...
...after another climbed Author Kaulback as spring melted the ice barriers in the rocky gorges. What finally defeated his quest for the source of the Salween was whiskers. Colleague John Hanbury-Tracy had grown a beard. A Tibetan official who had been in India and knew that Britons shave thought he was a Russian spy, and the expedition was held up until winter made the trip impossible. Though he failed to find the source of the Salween, Explorer Kaulback was comforted by the thought that "it still remains to be found by someone." He might be comforted by the further...