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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sadler is an East Texan whose mother sold her chickens to give him a start when oil was discovered in the great East Texas field nine years ago. Hustling Jerry Sadler worked at odd jobs and high wages, saved his money and studied law. Last year, still a political unknown, he ran for a place on the important Texas Railroad Commission (which regulates Texas oil production). Weeks before Governor Wilbert Lee ("Pass the Biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel started to campaign with his Hillbilly Band, Jerry Sadler was touring Texas with the Sadler Stringsters, whooping it up in folk-song...
...bouquet of roses presented to her at the banquet, a menu signed by Jim Farley, a waltz with an unknown postmaster. "Our badges were our introduction," she explained. "I love to dance-the waltz glide, not this hopping around." Then back she went to her post office on the Eastern Shore, for bi-monthly stocktaking...
...Weather Man predicts "Clear"; the odds say Harvard. But nothing will be clear until 2 o'clock, when an untested and unknown Crimson eleven meets its first stiff opposition in Soldiers Field against Pennsylvania...
...Senior year at Kent in 1935 Coleman held down a tackle slot on one of Father Sill's greatest teams, and earned all-state ranking, which he describes as "pure bunk." Last year Coleman was a comparatively unknown center until the middle of October, when he was shifted to guard. A week and a half later, with Dave Glueck on the injured list, Coleman started his first Varsity game against Cornell...
...late in October 1929, no man could picture October 1939, no one at the outbreak of war could picture the U. S. ten years hence and see with confidence the conditions of its common life. Off in the unknown future lay a sequence of struggles that would number the prophets and the positive among its casualties. Off in the same future lay the contributions to the productive life to be tested against the forces of destruction. And off in the same future lay the challenge of great ideas to change the mood of the people, to determine where if anywhere...