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Despite President Roosevelt, there was evidence last week that the U. S. is returning to horse & buggy days. In Huntingburg, Ind., President Herman Heitman of Huntingburg Wagon Works (largest in the U. S.) announced: "The Depression didn't affect us in the least and today we are expanding. Present trends indicate a decided increase in business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Buggy Boom | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

...because he was sick of "people flying at each other's throats." In 1923 he married young Lillian Morgan, a poet proud of her descent from the Colonial Cranes. Composer Saminsky was re-excited about the redskin when he saw The Covered Wagon and read Natalie Curtis' Indian translations. He planned to write Pueblo for several years, did so last summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Saminsky's Indians | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

When Robert Wadlow was 9 years old he was taller than his father and could toss him around. He stood 6 ft. and weighed 178 Ib. The "express wagon" he played with was guaranteed to support the weight of three grown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Alton Giant | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

...Election Committee has decided that this year they will not announce the tabulation of votes until after the election, giving as their reason that in recent years the voters have showed a tendency to jump on the band wagon and to cast their votes for the most popular candidate in the primaries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN CHOOSE SIX NOMINEES FOR OFFICERS OF 1940 | 2/24/1937 | See Source »

...wedding in 1924 was not quite so quiet as the bride & groom had planned. The best man, famed Watercolorist John Marin, met the couple at the Weehawken ferry with the Chandler touring car his son, John Jr. still drives, smashed a lamp post and a grocery wagon and fought with a policeman before his friends were delivered to a justice of the peace at Cliffside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Skulls & Feathers | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

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