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...plunked one dollar into the river, placed two more well up on the opposite bank. Official distance: 286 ft. 6 in. Representative Bloom, "too busy" to attend, refused to pay the citizens of Fredericksburg $100,000, pointed out that the legend was impossible anyway since the dollar did not exist in Washington's youth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 2, 1936 | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

...partners were supposed to have sewed up several Pennsylvania counties on the basis of collecting back taxes for a worth-while percentage of the receipts, he declared: "I am not, nor ever have been, a party either directly or indirectly to any such plan . . . nor does any such plan exist," demanded from the Inquirer a full retraction unless it wanted to be sued for criminal libel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Pennsylvania Privilege | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

...partner (Lionel Stander); teaching the dowager patron of a benefit bout how to duck a punch; knocking out Champion MacFarland, whose seconds have accidentally given him a sleeping potion just before the fight. It Had to Happen (Twentieth Century-Fox) is about a group of glossy New Yorkers who exist only in the imaginations of writers like Rupert Hughes, from whose story it was adapted. There is the behind-the-scenes politician (George Raft) whose heart is as big as his racing stable, the patrician young lady (Rosalind Russell) whom he loves, and her unpleasant husband (Alan Dinehart). Rosalind Russell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 24, 1936 | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

...exaggeration. Samuel Insull receives $21,000 per year in pensions from his old Chicago operating companies. *Similar discrepancies exist in the prices of old securities and reorganization securities of Baldwin Locomotive and Burns Bros., big Eastern Coal distributor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Insull & Pennies | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

...preamble to the proposed constitution, drawn up by the men above with the assistance of Raymond Dennett '36, and Robert S. Chafee '36, sets forth the purpose behind the new Union. It reads: "Whereas, believing that an organization should exist at Harvard to bring together different political, social, and economic opinions of the students in regard to such questions as the promotion of international peace, of social security, and the preservation of the liberties guaranteed in the first ten amendments to the Federal Constitution, we hereby form the Harvard Student Union in order to promote intelligent discussion, thorough study...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COALITION GROUP FORMS UNION AT MEETING TONIGHT | 2/19/1936 | See Source »

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