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What made Mr. Colmer so sure that the bill would pass was that: 1) 1940 is election year, and 2) Negroes in the north and west can vote. The lone Negro in Congress, white-topped Democrat Arthur Mitchell of Chicago, won no friends for the bill. He taunted Republicans with ganging up to "buy" Negro votes, made some almost angry enough to vote against the bill. A Republican who did vote "No" was upstate New York's Wadsworth, one of two ex-Senators who have come down to the House (the other: borderline Ken tucky's solemn, long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: At the Store | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

Married. Lee Powell, who plays the cinema role of the Lone Ranger; and Norma Rogers of York, S. C.; in Chicago. (Three days later, radio's Lone Ranger, Earle Graser, became the father of a daughter, Gabrielle Ann, in Detroit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 22, 1940 | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

...Finegan turned in three years of backcourt duty at Gloucester, and big Jack Penson supplies the lone touch of experience at the pivot post, holding down a regular job for two years at St. Paul...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: Crimson Hoopmen Suffer From Lack of Experience and Height | 1/16/1940 | See Source »

...glib, confidential voice that made this announcement was that of Arthur Hale, a Manhattan newscaster who in his 43 years has been doughboy, claim agent, insurance man, trackwalker and radio pianist, but never a reporter. Behind his voice was Transradio Press Service, Inc., radio's lone and far-flung news agency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Confidentially Yours | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

With the team as a whole seldom clicking offensively, the Crimson charges were made sporadically by individual players who occasionally allowed strong skating and stick-handling ability. Center Warren Winslow proved himself most able to match McGill's elusive stick work, while Coleman played the lone wolf on several occasions, almost getting by the opposing netman, Walt Johnson. Skip Erwin came closest to tallying, when only a lightning save by Johnson prevented him from banging home a rebound in the first period...

Author: By Peter Dammann, | Title: PUCK SQUAD DEFEATED BY SPEEDY CANADIANS | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

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