Word: western
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator (1915-27), advanced himself last week as a rival to Massachusetts' Joe Martin as a candidate for Minority Leader of the House. Because, said he, "I feel that the course to be followed by the Republican minority . . . during the next two years is of vital importance." Western Congressmen think neither he nor Joe Martin deserves the Leadership, since the main Republican gains of the last election were made in other States (Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kansas, Michigan). Their candidate: Carl Mapes of Michigan...
...Joseph Stalin has now decided to make trouble for the democratic governments of Western Europe by promoting general strikes and "World Revolution'' (TIME, Nov. 21), and if there is anything in it for European trade union bosses not themselves Communists, Léon Jouhaux is going to get what...
Started in 1898 by Southern Pacific Co., then engaged in colonizing and propagandizing its western empire, Sunset was circulated mostly in the East and widely advertised by Indian posters captioned: ''You can see Indians like this in the Far West and read about them in Sunset Magazine." In 1914 Southern Pacific sold the magazine to employes. They set out to publish a thick "Atlantic Monthly of the West." Circulation drooped, dropped...
...Lane visited the Coast as adman for Better Homes and Gardens. He was born in Horton, Kans., had jogged around Minnesota with a horse and buggy selling Keen Kutter knives, got his learning at Drake University. Like many another Coast visitor, Larry Lane saw at once how vastly Far Western modes of living, eating, fun-making differed from those of the rest of the U. S. When he bought Sunset (largely for its established name) in 1928, he determined to publish a magazine capitalizing on the Far West's insularity. His first move was to slash the price from...
Skiers who travel by automobile will be glad to know that the system of patrols inaugurated last winter in the south-western part of New Hampshire began yesterday, according to Alfred E. White, engineer of Division 9 to Keene, New Hampshire...