Word: mcfarland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arizona was consistent about its senior Senator, four times returned him to the Senate. This year he was opposed in the primaries by stocky, good-natured Judge Ernest W. McFarland, farm boy, schoolteacher, lawyer. Ashurst, in the Senate, opposed conscription. McFarland, in Arizona, was for it. But McFarland made a bigger issue out of the Senator's long absences from the State. For the past ten years Ashurst has scarcely stirred from Washington. This year he did not even bother to go back and campaign in the primary. Few, least of all Ashurst, thought this indifference would make...
...Superman its ace, the magazine Action Comics' net paid circulation has whooped since June 1938 from 130,000 to 800,000. Superman Quarterly is gobbled up at the rate of 1,300,000 copies an edition. The Superman Club has 100,000 members, including Eric & Jean LaGuardia, Spanky McFarland (Our Gang Comedies), a La Follette, a Du Pont, eleven middies from Annapolis, 16 students at Hiram (Ohio) College. In the works are Superman rings, sweater emblems, a Superman watch, a Superman radio (with super power...