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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the Senate trial was balked, the Governor, in a white linen suit, held a reception in his office beneath the Senate Chamber. Admirers swarmed about, demanded his autograph. He gave it thus: "Huey P. Long, Governor of Louisiana by the grace of the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATES: Long . . . By Grace | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...coroner, complicate his decision to marry Arielle, young, beautiful, mysterious. Her mystery resolves itself into insanity. The coroner devotes the rest of his life to guarding Arielle. Undaunted, he insists: ... I believe, and ride By this belief vast wings from star to star; From which I look on death beneath as a shadow Thrown from a mountain by the rising sun; . . . the love of truth, The love of love, in spite of all the loss, The anguish, reckless hatred of our kind Sustain and justify and help to prove The inscrutable mission of the million years, In -which each incident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Good Life | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...beast. "Those squaw men disgrace America in the Philippines," said the General. "Hundreds of 'em swinging 'round and living off native women. No American soldiers should be discharged until they have returned home." As we smoked and sipped, the pair drew nearer, and I recognized the man beneath his sweat and dirt. "It's no squaw man, General," I said. "It's Bishop Brent." The General said, "God almighty, what a mistake!" And to the striker,- "Fix things for Bishop Brent!" But the khaki-clothed Bishop would not stop to eat. He had lunched with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 20, 1929 | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...Mutt Psychology." Just before the vote, California's Senator Hiram Johnson arose, pulled down his waistcoat, rattled off a fast-stepping speech which, beneath the ridicule, epitomized the Senate's opinion in favor of Debentures. His fists moved back and forth characteristically as he conceded the debenture was a "bounty" and asked, "What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: Ill Winds | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...breaking of athletic relations between major universities is slowly coming to be a fetish. They become more macabre when viewed in the light of the apparently minor incidents on which they are invariably based. Beneath all this past exchange of blows, Harvard plays Princeton on the Yale golf course today. A natural corollary might be a meeting of Harvard and Princeton undergraduates on Yale soil to bury the hatchet. The suggestion is not new. It was proferred by the Yale Student Council at the time of the break. It might still succeed on one condition: that it be an undergraduate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Friendly Game of Golf | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

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