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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before last at 73. In 1884 he landed in New York from a freighter and headed west. For three years he rode the range in the Dakotas and Iowa, then covered the trial of a brewer for the murder of a Methodist temperance leader who had put over local option in Sioux City. That got him back into the newspaper business and he moved on to the St. Paul Globe and then the Minneapolis Journal, which paid him $30 a week to be sports editor and cover special events such as the last war with the Indians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pegler's Pa | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Contracts for the two who are accepted by the film company are understood to run for six months with a possible option for renewal at a higher wage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hollywood Offers Writer Contracts To Chosen Seniors | 4/14/1939 | See Source »

Additionally the French Government has an option for 200 engines at a cost...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 3/30/1939 | See Source »

Tennessee did not vote back its bars. Its new law permits package trade only, for cash not credit,* with the wet-dry option still reserved to each county. Tax: 70? the gallon on whiskey. To Boss Crump's wet Shelby County the only difference will be that thirsty Memphians need no longer drive over the Mississippi River bridge to the nearest liquor store, a big, hugely profitable emporium on the Arkansas shore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: Legal Toddy | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...DSTs largely by equipment trust certificates sold to RFC. But Pan American had to seek no such professional giver of largess. It sold $2,500,000 worth of 4% certificates, maturing semiannually from January 1940 to January 1944, to the hardheaded New York Trust Co., has an option to sell it another $1,000,000 worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Air Trust | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

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