Word: wheeler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ALLAN T. WHEELER...
...Readers Wheeler and Curtis pay attention. Of course TIME is not printing the news "before it happens'' but it is getting the news to its readers one day sooner. It necessarily takes time to print 700,000 and more copies of a magazine. By still going to press the same day it always has but speeding up its printing schedule, TIME now gets to its readers (local post-masters permitting) on Thursdays instead of Fridays...
Died. Robert Woolsey, 49, of the cinema comedy team of Wheeler & Woolsey (Rio Rita, The Cuckoos, Half Shot at Sunrise); of kidney disease; at Malibu Beach, Calif...
...Created a new body to watch newspaper and radio advertising. FTC set up a Radio & Periodical Division to administer provisions of the recent Wheeler-Lea Act. Appointed director was an FTC trial lawyer with the extraordinary name of PGad Morehouse. PGad is a contraction of Peter Gad, given name of Mr. Morehouse's grandfather...
...Deal Democrats attempt to unhorse Kentucky's plodding, obedient "Dear Alben" Barkley as Majority Leader? To do so would in effect amount to purging the Senate of Roosevelt leadership. Last week, in an otherwise unimportant newspaper spat between Montana's utterly independent Democrat Burton K. Wheeler and New Jersey's obedient Democrat William Smathers, came an answer. Declaring that there would be no attempted Barkley ouster, Mr. Wheeler said: "Why should there be? He leads only [Indiana's] Minton and [Washington's] Schwellenbach. We have the votes to remove him if we like...