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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Huey's feud against "lyin' newspapers" (still carried on by Brother Earl Kemp Long, now running to succeed himself as Governor) exploded in a court order for contempt proceedings against the New Orleans Item-the same Item that once offered Huey a job. Marshall Ballard's paper got in trouble when it used some ugly words in connection with some of Long's followers. But the Item was only saying openly what other New Orleans papers have said by implication for years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Contemptuous Item | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Cranston E. Jones '40 will succeed T. Dunstan Thompson '40 as President of The Monthly for next year, it was announced following the elections yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jones to Succeed Thompson As 1940 Monthly President | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

...Goodman used to think so, and things like "Sing, Sing, Sing" resulted. But people soon tire of the constant pound of the style and grow sick of the dearth of ideas in the music. So Goodman is trying to shift his band to the other style. Whether he will succeed is a moot question...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

Westmore Wileox 3rd '41 was chosen the new President of the Harvard Advocate to succeed President Thornton F. Bradshaw '40 in an election yesterday. Nelson R. Gidding '41 will be the new secretary, replacing Gardner C. Quarton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wilcox Announced as Next Head of Harvard Advocate | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

Most likely to succeed, is Lloyd C. Douglas's "inspirational" Doctor Hudson's Secret Journal (Houghton Mifflin, $2.50), sequel to that classic of spiritual horse -doctoring, Magnificent Obsession. Perennials in any group of novels are a certain number which appear to have been written because: 1) their authors need the money, or 2) some novelists get started and can't stop. Such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fifty Man Years | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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