Word: candidates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herald & Examiner, the pictures represented a notable scoop. City Editor John Dienhart had long had a standing order from hard-boiled Managing Editor Victor Watson for an electrocution picture. To the execution of Murderer Thompson he sent tall, personable Cameraman William Vandivert, with a candid camera concealed in the crotch of his trousers. Squatting on the floor in front of some 50 standing and kneeling witnesses behind a wire-mesh glass partition, Vandivert caught the writhing body, the contorted hands, the black-hooded face of Gerald Thompson, won for himself a small bonus, a smaller raise...
EUROPEAN EXPERIENCES ? Mabel Dodge Luhan?Harcourt, Brace ($3.75). Two years ago Mabel Dodge Luhan published the first volume of extracts from her Intimate Memories, dealing candidly with a girlhood in the upper circle of Buffalo and with first awakening adventures abroad. That book, like European Experiences, was drawn from a vast manuscript that has acquired a legendary importance: the complete story of Mabel Dodge Luhan's life and of the people she has known, not to be published in its entirety until all those who appear in it are dead. European Experiences is a selection of what...
...seems inevitable that in the event of a European was this country will merely give up its trade in armaments but will rigidly insist upon maintaining all other commerce with the belligerent nations. With unexpected bluntness Mr. Baruch plunged his fist right through this frail platform in a candid exhortation for genuine neutrality. Speaking as one who perhaps knows more about war economy than any other man, President Wilson's head of the War Industries Board declared, "There isn't no such animal as non-war material...
Early last week, as Congress surged toward adjournment, Candid Cameraman Thomas D. McAvoy of Washington made his way quietly into a Senate Gallery, sat down behind two visitors. On the Senate floor below, Louisiana's Long was in the midst of his filibuster which marked the closing hours of the Senate session. Next to him sat Arizona's white-suited Ashurst and just beyond, Oklahoma's blind Gore, his head attentively lifted. In his frontrow aisle seat slouched Senate Leader Robinson, disgusted beyond words at the "Kingfish's" performance. Around the walls of the chamber stood...
...frankly, a series of sketches dealing with college life in general, with two amiable, intelligent, irresponsible Harvard boys in particular. Last week Author Flandrau prefaced a slim collection of these sketches with a long, ingratiating introduction almost entirely given over to an account of the formidable difficulties that a candid young writer faced in a period when editors were cautious to the point of timidity...