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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...call attention to an error in the title below the picture on p. 14, TIME, Nov. 25? It should read "Theodore Roosevelt and Friends," omitting "Kaiser Wilhelm," for he was not there. This picture was taken early in the morning, May 10, 1910, at the exit of the private waiting room of one of Berlin's railroad stations (Stettiner Bahnhof, I think), while the Colonel and members of the American Embassy there to receive him waited for their conveyances to come up. The crowd outside was cheering. I recall this occasion very distinctly and even more distinctly the actual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...After $8,000,000 was finally appropriated, in 1899. Governor Theodore Roosevelt and other leading New Yorkers invited Dockman Ambrose to a testimonial dinner. He died a week later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Ambrose | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...machine gun volley. They found all the last six rebels dead in a pile. Warden Jennings, dragged to safety when the convicts charged the gate, was dizzy from gas and a clubbing but all right. Nine guards and convicts had been killed, many others injured. After the break Governor Roosevelt said: "We have three commissions working on the problem now. I would name a fourth if it would do any good." He announced that seven captured rioters would be tried for their lives. He promised to make special penal recommendations to the legislature next month concerning: 1) A five-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Again, Auburn | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...tariff wall. The Spanish War added Porto Rico, the Philippines and Guam as imperial outposts, gave the U. S. a protectorate over Cuba. From the 1902 revolution in Panama the U. S. got land for the canal, laid the foundation for U. S. dominion over the Caribbean. Theodore Roosevelt, if not an imperialist, was a master empire-builder; he enlarged the Monroe Doctrine, took over the collection of the Dominican customs. The sphere of U. S. influence in the Caribbean widened; other powers were shut out as the U. S. undertook the job of policing this new domain. National defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Montezuma, Tripoli & Beyond | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...Roosevelt Field, N. Y., Otto Kafka, student flyer, spun the propeller of his plane without blocking the wheels. As the plane sailed over his head Kafka grabbed the tail, was carried dangling in the air to a height of five feet where he dropped to the ground. After a few gyrations the plane crashed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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