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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Opportunist. The dark and tousled head of Revolutionist-Extraordinary General José Gonzalo Escobar, who arranged for the killing of 4,000 Mexicans by each other last spring, lay several nights last week on a spotless pillowcase at No. 7750 Colfax Ave., Chicago, home of Vice President Merwin Crawford of Crawford & Associates (printers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: What's What | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...Fred Colfax Smith, at present Instructor in Education, has been appointed Register of the Graduate School of Education, Lecturer on Vocational Education and member of the Faculty of the Graduate School of Education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANNOUNCE APPOINTMENT TO FACULTY POSITIONS | 5/28/1929 | See Source »

Forty-eight years ago a baby was born blind in Montgomery, Ala. She grew up, married a man named Wagoner, bore a son whom she could touch but never see. Lately, ill, she was taken to the charity hospital at Colfax, La. The doctors told her they thought they might, even now, operate and make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: First Sight | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

Rolled Stockings (James Hall,* Louise Brooks,- Richard Arlen-). If the jubilant alumni only realized that Jim Treadway's stroking old Colfax to victory was in part the silent triumph of his brother Ralph, who dashed the cup and the bad lady from brawny Jim's lips, and told him he ought to keep training the night before the big race, perhaps they would have felt the same simple gratification as the audience when the unsung hero got the girl and ended the picture. Paid to Love (George O'Brien, Virginia Valli). The picture involves a mythical kingdom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Aug. 1, 1927 | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

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