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...proclaimed: "If I am elected I will take an oath to support the Constitution and not to support Ed Schorr." But when he had whipped them, he made terms which they could accept, and the professionals, who can forgive everything but failure, came trooping back. The Burton band wagon has been rolling ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OHIO: Cleveland's Mayor | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

Crosley hired white-haired, bespectacled "CannonBall" Baker to make a transcontinental run in its new diminutive Covered Wagon (123½ inches overall). His report: "2,454 miles at a cost of $9.14 makes automobile history." Prices: $299 to $450. Company brag: "50 miles on a gallon-EASY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The'4Is | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

...days Hollywood was rather colorful, because nobody took off his makeup at night, and everybody walked up & down the streets at night dressed like Napoleon, and did their business. And we used to wait to get a call . . . and when we got the call we would grab a sand wagon and go to Universal, which was the popular studio at that time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gag Man | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

...Tulsa, Okla., Dogcatcher Ernest Roberts was suspended for "exceeding his duty" after he arrested four men and a woman for drunkenness, took them to jail in his dog wagon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Novel | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

...STATION WAGON MURDER-Milton Propper- Harper ($2). Extortion is loose among Philadelphia's summering socialites and the body of Mrs. Eleanor Munson is found stabbed, in a station wagon. Trollop or no, Mrs. M. had a history that took Detective Tommy Rankin hotfoot to the scene of an adulterous Maryland tryst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: September Murders | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

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