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...failed to follow through with a law fixing alcoholic content. Result: potent beer continued to foam unchecked in Kansas. Democrats charge that Governor Landon got the Legislature to dodge the issue and thwart the popular will because, as a prospective Presidential nominee, he was afraid his signature on a bone dry law would cost him support among Eastern Wets. Last week a Democratic proposal for such a law got only nine Senate votes. Even Joe McDonald was against it. "In Kansas," cried he, "we seem to have a unique Utopia in which the Drys have the law and the Wets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KANSAS: Security & Service | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

...made a cast of the skull which has since disappeared. Last week in Charlotte, N. C. another group, including Charlotte's chief of detectives, announced that a battery of scientists was being assembled to make, probably next month, an exhaustive examination of Peter Ney's bones and dust. Present will be Dr. J. Edward Smoot, who as a boy saw Peter Ney exhumed in 1887, later gathered what he considered convincing proof of the Marshal's escape to the U. S., put it in a book called Marshal Ney Before and After Execution. The historical detectives centre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTH CAROLINA: Marshal Up? | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

...much publicized and gushed-over, by sob sisters, Peggy Ann Landon, in a Cleveland restaurant famed for its good, high-powered beer. Wonder what bone-dry Kansans think of this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 29, 1936 | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

...Atlanta, Jack Bone, aged 17 months, came upon an eight-inch snake in his back yard, bit it, killed it. Bundled off to a hospital, Jack Bone was pronounced unharmed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Prize | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

...seemed the fight was winning and that the plane might be landed, you came back and warned your passengers that the landing would be rough. You unlocked the door so that all could escape from the burning plane. . . . You did this when your hands were burned to the bone. You could hardly hold the key. I pray God for the knowledge to understand for what purpose He saved my life by sacrificing yours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Another for Texas | 6/22/1936 | See Source »

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