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Died. J. Waddy Tate, 66, onetime (1929-31) mayor of Dallas, Texas; after brief illness; in Dallas. In the 1927 mayoralty campaign, Tate wore blue overalls, carried a fishing rod, lost; but two years later he spent only $218 campaigning, bought frankfurters for 10,000 voters, won hands down.
The Republican floor leader of the House, New York's Bertrand H. Snell, has the duty of taking cracks at the majority, but he was in better form last week than usual when he came to summarize the highlights of the session. He listed: 1) the President's...
With LIFE, Look, Pic, Foto, on the stands and so many highly-paid publishing minds engaged in the picture magazine business, someone was certain to see the funny possibilities in the current trend. Last week former Fawcett Publications Business Manager William Cotton did just that, put on newsstands mainly in...
Gaunt Old Dr. Francis Everett ("The Plan") Townsend told Detroit's Recorder's Court Judge Edward J. Jeffries a joke: "The President went fishing once and forgot his bait. He looked over the side of the boat, cleared his throat, and said: 'My friends-.' A thousand...
Before he left Washington to go fishing off Florida last fortnight, Franklin Roosevelt completed two messages to Congress. In the first, he asked for amendments to the 1934 Housing Act, to stimulate the U. S. building industry by making it easier for prospective homebuilders to finance their houses (TIME, Dec...