Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME cares, TIME will read William Vincent Byars' An American Commoner and find there the quotation from Dana in his Sun: "R. P. Bland is the only statesman produced in this country in the last quarter of the loth Century." And TIME may find the following in the Sun early in 1912: "We note that Champ Clark has selected Bill Stone as his campaign manager. Be careful, Champ, remember what Stone did to Bland at Chicago." And if TIME is not, history will be concerned with what happened at Chicago: That Bland led without any sort of organized support...
Stretching back beyond the Century of Progress will be a replica of Fort Dearborn (1803), a Lama temple from Jehol imported by Vincent Bendix, a Mayan ruin reproduced after the approximately 700-year-old original in Yucatan by Tulane's Frans Blom. Climax of the backward time flight is "A Million Years Ago." On a small rounded mountain a caveman and his woman crouch low while the horrid monsters of King Kong and The Lost World stomp & roar, waggle their heads, lash their tails. New York's Messmore & Damon, U. S. monopolists on the construction of mechanized monsters...
When Joseph Vincent ("Holy Joe") McKee withdrew (TIME, May 15), the field of New York City politics looked cleared entirely for Tammany Hall. A mayoral election comes this autumn and on the scene loomed no figure of importance except Distinguished Citizen Al Smith, who almost certainly would not lead a fusion ticket against his good friend and fellow Tammany Sachem, Mayor John Patrick O'Brien...
Last week a U. S. Coast Guard destroyer steamed out beyond the Virginia Capes to police another exciting treasure hunt. Goal was the Merida, sunk in 210 ft. of water in 1911 with bullion and jewels in her vaults. In the Salvor, backed by Vincent Astor & friends, Captain Harry L. Bowdoin set out to catch the prize. Aboard he carried stout metal cylinders with movable legs and arms attached, which were to enable his divers to work comfortably at great depths. The weighty apparatus (1,400 Ib. at the surface) is also equipped with searchlights. Also aboard, Captain Bowdoin carried...
...Joseph Vincent ("Holy Joe") Mo Kec, president of New York City's Board of Aldermen, onetime acting mayor, anti-Tammany white hope for next election, abruptly announced he was quitting politics to become president of Title Guarantee & Trust Co. A newsman asked him: ''Do you mean you're disgusted with politics?" Snapped Mr. McKee: "You're telling me?" Credited with some part in kicking "Holy Joe," Tammany stumbling block, upstairs into a $50,000 job was Tammany's foxy little Boss John Francis Curry...