Word: whitings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vacancy, or the No. 2 job there after moving up Acting Secretary Charles Edison, was Missouri's Governor Lloyd Crow Stark, newly famed for smacking down villainous Boss Tom Pendergast of Kansas City (TIME, April 17, et seq.). Mr. Stark, an Annapolis graduate, is now high on the White House's list of 1940 prospects. Calling him for duty at Washington would be one way of building him up nationally. Last week, with a band and a trainload of Missourians, Governor Stark set off on a Western tour which will make him better known...
...What to do about Indiana's white-headed Paul McNutt, first and boldest Democratic candidate for Franklin Roosevelt's job (TIME, July 10), was a question which Mr. Roosevelt answered last week by inviting Mr. McNutt to become, after resigning as High Commissioner to the Philippines, director of the new, consolidated Federal Security Agency. In that post, at Washington. Candidate McNutt could be kept under surveillance and control, throttled if necessary. Or he could be built up as heir-apparent if that seemed more desirable. Able, ambitious executive that he is, he could be counted on in either...
...much put out this past year as he watched the parade of other Latin-American strongmen to Washington: Cuba's Batista, Nicaragua's Somoza, Brazil's Aranha and Monteiro (TIME, Nov. 14, et seq.). All these received official invitations, were saluted, handshaken, welcomed at the White House. But for Dictator Trujillo, no invitation came...
First U. S. mariner to see Antarctica was Nathaniel B. Palmer, a sealer out of Stonington, Conn., in 1820. In 1840, Lieutenant Charles Wilkes, U. S. N., sent by Congress, sighted its white peaks, declared it to be a continental land mass. To Palmer Land from the tip of South America is only 575 nautical miles. Political argument is that the million-square-mile sector explored by U. S. visitors from Palmer to Byrd (and Lincoln Ellsworth) should be claimed in toto, instead of in spots, brought within the Monroe Doctrine's sphere, before Germany or another power moves...
...Mescalero Apache reservation in southern New Mexico last week went many a Navaho, Comanche, Kiowa and Oklahoma Apache tribesman, plus hundreds of white vacationists, to join the 800 Mescaleros in a tribal ceremony. Hosts were Paul and Charles Evans, rich Apaches. The occasion: presentation of their 16-year-old daughters, Rebecca and Carolyn, to Indian society...