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...political dynamite could blow larger holes in the Solid South than any other single campaign issue. Throughout the South began to appear cheap pamphlets containing blurred photographs of the Roosevelts consorting with Negroes, blatant text proclaiming them ardent Negrophiles. First public notice of this stirring of the black pot of race feeling was taken when copies of the Georgia Woman's World were placed on the chair of every delegate to the convention of anti-Roosevelt "Goober Democrats," called by Georgia's Governor Eugene Talmadge and the Southern Committee to Uphold the Constitution in Macon last winter (TIME...
...reservation system; the languages, tribal customs and habits would long since have vanished and the American Indian would long since have been but a memory. This idea follows the assimilation of the many racials that have come to the U. S. to be lost in the "melting pot of citizenship...
...Kingdom's illustrated papers for weeks with every conceivable picture of His late Majesty. Instinctively, out of all the thousands, Englishmen picked one snapshot as their favorite (see cut). Last week began a movement to cast in enduring bronze kindly, paternal King George and the grinning little paint-pot boy who proffered a small, grimy paw to His Majesty in a British shipyard in 1917. "Find that boy!" ordered London editors last week. Soon John Michael Cassidy was found. He turned out to have been in 1917 not the child he looks in the picture but a 16-year...
...pardon, and for the ghost of Bugle Ann which ran the woods the night of his return. So nearly a scenario was Kantor's novel that Samuel Hoffenstein and Harvey Gates could have written most of their adaptation with a pair of shears and a paste-pot. Yet no company but M-G-M bid for the book. It is as far from conventional screen material as a good fox-night from the sick air of a soundstage. Director Richard Thorpe has kept a newsreel vitality in his telling of the tale, much of which was made in Missouri...
...handle." In his "Harvard Memoirs" President Eliot wrote: "The students in my time--nineteen-twentieths of them--brought their water in their own pails from one of two pumps in the Yard, carrying it up to their rooms themselves. They had no hot water whatever, unless they heated a pot on their own fire, and very few did that. Consequently the amount of bathing done in the College was extremely limited. Harvard was a college of personalities...