Word: trios
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...county seats of South Carolina were wide awake last week. Through them since early summer had been traveling two political circuses: a party of eight candidates stumping for nomination as Governor; a trio wrangling over a Senatorship. The nation watched the trio for in it was Senator Ellison DuRant ("Cotton Ed") Smith, 74, dean of Senate Democrats (30 years), upon whose classic brow Franklin Roosevelt had placed his angry Purge mark. Governor Olin Dewitt Talmadge Johnston, 41, was the Purge's agent and candidate. Third man was State Senator Edgar A. Brown. 50, able parliamentarian, former Speaker...
...back-platform talk at Greenville last fortnight. Franklin Roosevelt had given the trio a last-minute "issue": whether or not a man can live in South Carolina on 50? a day. It came from a Senate speech made by Mr. Smith last year (TIME, Aug. 9, 1937). Last week Mr. Smith was angrily explaining that the President had been misinformed: his reference to life on 50? a day was "for illustration" only in discussing Wages & Hours. South Carolina's best newspapers all believed him, quoted the speech to help him prove Candidate Johnston a misinformer, and the 50? issue...
...Washington last week the committee charged with policing 1938's Senate campaigns was stripped down to dutiful little Senator Sheppard of Texas (chairman), urbane Senator White of Maine (the sole Republican), lumbering Senator David Ignatius Walsh of Massachusetts. In an air-conditioned office at the Capitol, this trio scanned reports from ten field investigators, kept the press informed of its opinions on the political campaign...
Less fortunate were a trio of Italian alpinists who were killed last week when a shower of rocks released by a lightning bolt swept them, off a &650-ft. cliff on the south wall of Mt. Marmolata in the Dolomites...
...Douglas dealing. Last week, Bill Douglas dealt a new hand to an intriguing set of opponents-lean, smart, Floyd Odium of Atlas Corp., fat, cunning Howard Hopson of Associated Gas & Electric Co. and bald, battle-worn Harley Clarke, late president of Utilities Power & Light Corp. As this hard-bitten trio of utility financiers studied their cards, kibitzers gathered thick around. For the play was the first test of the notorious utility "death sentence," and everyone agreed that Bill Douglas had dealt shrewdly...