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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moments later in St. Louis' Municipal Auditorium, Alfred M. Landon took the platform, accompanied for the first time in the campaign by his wife and his daughter. The crowd shouted in frenzy. "Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen," he began. Not a word was audible above the hubbub. Long-suffering as Caspar Milquetoast, he repeated his salutation ten or a dozen times before the crowd permitted him to be heard. Then, halting frequently, with eyes often searching anxiously for his place in his manuscript, Alf Landon read the closing speech of his campaign, not a much better orator than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Grand Finale | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

Coach Dick Harlow's Crimson team meets a fast, tricky squad much addicted to forward passing when it faces Virginia tomorrow, according to word received from Charlottesville...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON FACE TRICKY, DECEPTIVE TEAM WHEN VIRGINIA COMES HERE | 11/6/1936 | See Source »

Union announced a sentimental addition to its service. To keep the word "telegraphically alive," LOVE may henceforth be added free to any of Western Union's 554 ready-written messages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Free Love | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

Technically Mr. Melius was correct but the circumstantial evidence was against him. The I. C. C. had the word of a Baltimore & Ohio man that a New York Central vice president had telephoned him to threaten that Universal would surely shift its patronage if B. & O. made an alliance with the Keeshin truck lines. The B. & O. continued to discuss that alliance, whereupon Universal started to route over Pennsylvania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Freight Forwarding | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

...With word that various Princeton Wayfarers were forced to return to New Jersey by train instead of the Cape Cod and Raritan Canal route for which they had paid passage, the tentacles of the west coast shipping strike reach far and wide. Labor disputes are tolerable only so long as they keep on the private battle ground between employer and employee. For the minute the public welfare is put in jeopardy, as occurred in an San Francisco two summers ago, the strike inevitably topples over with the weight of popular disfavor, and both management and labor lose the gains that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DOWN TO THE SEA | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

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