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...Republican opponent in November will be another youngster, 38-year-old Herbert K. Hyde. A part-Indian who once studied elocution under Professor Lee, Nominee Hyde successfully prosecuted the kidnappers of Oilman Charles Frederick Urschel (TIME, Oct. 2 & 9, 1935). Last week he planned to out-josh Josh Lee, blanket Oklahoma with flamboyant oratory. Lee's slogan: "From hoe-handle to the U. S. Senate." Hyde's slogan: "From bootblack to U. S. Senator...
...There was never any intention of stopping Mussolini!" was Opposition Leader Attlee's blanket charge against the National Government of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. "In the background was always the idea that Italy might be needed for an alliance against someone else. The result was that Sanctions never had a trial...
Most promising new clock is actually a watch. In the industry non-jeweled watches are often called clocks, always counted as clocks. The jeweled watch is an industry by itself.* Development of GTI's new low-priced watch was in line with the company's aim to blanket the clock field. Last year it bought Stromberg Electric to broaden its list of devices like time stamps, job recorders, in-&-out recorders...
...true tha plain and unadorned junking of some of the measures of the past four years would constitute a net gain. But a policy of blanket condemnation, of unadulterated negativism could not and should not win the next election. The voter requires a plan of action, well-formulated ideas from the elephant before they will let him pull the national chariot out of mire into which the donkey, according to G.O.P. version, has drawn...
...third group of visitors were 45 Navajos, Pueblos and Hopis who turned up under the guidance of the Department of the Interior just as the President and Mrs. Roosevelt got into their open touring car one afternoon to drive to Mt. Vernon. The Indians came bearing gifts, a blanket for the Great White Father, a ring for the Great White Mother. Solemnly they filed past the Father's car shaking his hand until the turn came of Chief Kolchavteewah. For a moment, to Franklin Roosevelt's surprise, it looked as if Kolchavteewah was going to kiss the Presidential...