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...tough, realistic, ruthless politicians with no particular political bias, but with a great yen to build things, run things efficiently and just incidentally do a spot of getting. Also around Avila Camacho have gathered a group of brash young conservatives typified by Miguel Alemán, 36, Governor of Vera Cruz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: New President, Old Job | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

Louisiana Purchase (music & lyrics by Irving Berlin; produced by B. G. De Sylva) was the first show in at least three years to charge $8.80 on opening night. In return it offered a rich program:, Irving Berlin music, a Morrie Ryskind book, Balanchine ballets, such headliners as Vera Zorina, Victor Moore, Billy Gaxton, Irene Bordoni. Good they all were, but at $7.70 or even $6.60 their efforts would not have come under the head of sweated labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Musical in Manhattan: Jun. 10, 1940 | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

Married. Composer Igor Stravinsky, 57, guest conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (whose first wife died in 1939); and Vera de Bossett Sudeikine, onetime dancer with Sergei Diaghilev's Ballet Russe; in Bedford, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 1, 1940 | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

...EUROPE WENT TO WAR-Vera Micheles Dean-Foreign Policy Association...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rights and Hopes | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

...Orleans' oldest daily newspaper (founded 1837) is the morning Times-Picayune, and no competitor has ever seriously challenged its dominance. The Picayune* sent George Wilkins Kendall, reputedly the first U. S. war correspondent, to Vera Cruz in 1847, published the peace treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo before the President of the U. S. even saw it. Before there was a telegraph, the Picayune used to set up stories in type on steamers bound from Mobile to New Orleans, send them galloping through the streets to press by team and wagon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Contemptuous Item | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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