Word: vermont
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time for all good Governors to come to the aid of their parties. Unfortunately for Alf Landon, aside from himself only eight of the 48 Governors can come to the aid of the Republican Party in the 1936 Presidential campaign. Governor Bridges of New Hampshire and Governor Smith of Vermont are satisfied that their States are already in the Republican bag. On the other hand, Governor Merriam of California, Governor Nice of Maryland and Governor Welford of North Dakota would probably privately concede that their States are in Franklin Roosevelt's bag. Of the three other Republican Governors, Buck...
...illiterate cowboy star's being baited by two mad pranksters, who would seem to be the only two brains in Holly-wood. Roy Roberts, in the role of one of these, probably carries off the acting honors. He represents a scenario writer who would much rather be back in Vermont writing a book of the soil, and who consequently treats his associates, especially the cowboy and the preposterously pedantic boss, with highly amused condescension. His greatest coup is the bringing to prominence of Happy and Happy's mother. Mario Brown in the part of the latter throws some new light...
Sportsmen across the middle of the U. S. complained last year that their season (Oct. 21 through Nov. 19) was too early. This year the Survey took heed and divided the U. S. into three zones instead of two, setting dates as follows: Northern (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, the Dakotas, Montana) : Oct. 10 through...
Nearly 1,000 trusts, extant and defunct, will be examined before SEC sends its report to Congress next January with recommendations for regulatory legislation. In charge is Commissioner Robert E. Healy, the grey-haired Vermont Republican who conducted most of the six-year investigation of public utility holding companies for the Federal Trade Commission. His first lieutenant is Paul P. Gourrich, a demon statistician who used to work for Kuhn, Loeb & Co. If his German accent were not so pronounced, Paul Gourrich might have been Commissioner Healy's inquisitor. Asking the questions last week was David Schenker, a bright...
Died. Beatty S. Balestier, 69, Vermont farmer, brother-in-law of the late Rudyard Kipling; in Brattleboro, Vt. After a roadside quarrel over money in 1896, Poet Kipling had him arrested for threatening his life, put under $400 peace bond. Shortly thereafter Kipling closed his Vermont estate for good, returned to England...