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...every school its "fat boy." To every club and circus its "biggest freak." The U. S. Senate, "greatest club in the world," school for Presidents, outstanding sideshow of the country, has Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Senate Week Jan. 30, 1928 | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

...flat tire. Look at the Middle West, prosperous, and here in New England we're slipping. I'll bo the biggest gun this town ever produced if I can get the shoe manufacturies to this town. We ought to have a fighting admiral in the Navy Department, not an Annapolis grad. Damn shame politics and the Navy have to mix up. When I'm a little older...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Bossy" Gillis Is Mayor of Newburyport When He Answers the Telephone-"Big Gun" Fires Volley at National Politics | 1/25/1928 | See Source »

...will those Democrats regret it who can manage to get out of their own sections and see "what-all" there is in the biggest State of the Union. In Houston, named for General Sam Houston,* who amounts to a second George Washington for Texans, they will find a city almost as big as Denver or Louisville, bigger than Omaha or Atlanta, twice the size of Albany, four times the size of Mobile, with ocean steamers coming right up to it from Galveston Bay, 50 miles away, and 17 railroads heading in from all directions. Jesse Holman Jones's hotel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: To Houston | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

Chevrolet Intentions. Said Chevrolet's own President W. S. Knudson: "We of the Chevrolet Motor Co. are preparing for our biggest year. Plans already in motion for the year contemplate the production of more than 1,000,000 units, several thousand in excess of the 1927 record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: New Chevrolet | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

...Witnesses were guarded and supported. Pre-trial statements by the defense promised demonstrations on a scale that would dwarf the Sacco-Vanzetti spectacle if it were proved, as the defense said convictions would prove, that the Fascist League of America had enlisted pressure from the political overlords of the biggest city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: In the Bronx | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

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